What's been happening?

A. UrbanRock Design is currently in the following public art pre-qualified pools:

  • Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Art Pool, Los Angeles, CA, 2006.
  • For Worth Public Art Pre-Qualified List, Fort Worth, TX, 2006.
  • 4 Culture, included in Planning Pre-Qualified Artists Pool, Seattle, WA, 2006.
  • Seattle Fire Stations Roster Pre-Qualified Artists Pool, Seattle, WA, 2006.
  • City of San Jose, CA, Pre-Qualified Public Artists Pool, 2006.
  • Atlanta, GA, included in Pre-Qualified Public Artists Pool, 2006.

B. UrbanRock Design has been pre-qualified to do work with the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) in the city of Los Angeles for Urban Design and Planning work.

C. UrbanRock Design was named as “alternate” for the Lake Merritt Estuary Public Art Project in Oakland, CA.

D. UrbanRock Design received a Runner-up Award for Next Generation Prize for "More Doors" project from Metropolis Magazine in 2005.

E. UrbanRock UrbanRock Design received a "Progressive Architecture" Award for the "Margins" project in 2005. (see the Jan 2005 issue of Architecture magazine)

F. UrbanRock Design received a "Best of Category" Award in Design Concepts for "Margins" project from International Design Magazine in 2004. (see the July/Aug 2004 issue of ID Magazine)

G. UrbanRock Design received a Runner-up Award for Next Generation Prize for the "Margins" project from Metropolis Magazine in 2004.

H. UrbanRock Design received a Westside Prize for excellence and innovation in city making for "Margins" project in 2003 from the Westside Urban Forum.

I. UrbanRock Design received an honorable mention for the "Margins" project in 2003 from the Boston Society of Architects for Unbuilt Projects.

J. Jeanine Centuori received a Maxine Frankel Grant from Woodbury University for the production of a “More Doors” Prototype in 2007.

K. The “Margins project is featured in “Design Like you Give a Damn” published by Metropolis, 2006.

L. The “Margins project is featured in “Community Handbook” published by Balcony Press, 2005.

M. The "Metaphors Matter" project is featured in "Eating Architecture," ed. by Paulette Singley and Jamie Horowitz, 2004.

N. “A Temporal Process”, an article by Jeanine Centuori, Russell Rock, and Ken McCown is published in “CityWorksLosAngeles: Handbook,” ed. by Elizabeth Martin, 2005.

O. “Finding Public Space in the Margins,” was exhibited at the Center for Architecture in San Francisco, CA in Nov 2006.

P. UrbanRock Design’s work was featured in the “NEW BLOOD: Next Gen” exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles in June, 2006.

Q. "Finding Public Space in the Margins" was in the PA Awards Exhibition, at the Center for Architecture in NYC in January, 2005.

R. The "Grief Monument" project by Jeanine Centuori and Karen Bermann was in the "Improbable Memorials," exhibition online @ http://sfcamerawork.org/improbable_monuments.html

S. Jeanine Centuori gave a lecture entitled "Sites of Engagement" at the University of New Mexico’s Architecture School in Fall 2005 and also at the University of Tennessee in Fall 2004.