| ABOUT UrbanRock Design is an art, architecture, and design studio that is committed to serving communities with the celebration of subtlety, connection to place, and altered perceptions. We appreciate working closely with stakeholders and clients for harmonious results. Our projects seek to transform the ordinary into moments of delight through transformation, appropriation, and reframing. We have completed public art plazas, park features, gardens, integrated facades, transit stations, median islands, four-unit housing projects, single family houses, law office remodels, a museum remodel, furniture designs, art plans, and urban designs. This work has been built in several cities around the US, and has been awarded, exhibited, and published. Many of our projects involve strong community outreach components including workshops, presentations, research, and collaborations. We have worked extensively with a variety of arts agencies, community groups, and governmental bodies.
STUDIO PROFILE Jeanine Centuori is an architect in the States of California and New York. She did her architectural internship with Toshiko Mori Architect, current Head of the GSD at Harvard University. Her educational background include degrees from The Cooper Union and Cranbrook Academy of Art, where architecture is pursued as an art form. She holds a teaching position in Woodbury University’s Department of Architecture where she is the Director of the Hollywood Center for Community Research and Design. She has been very involved in community outreach projects in practice and academia. Her projects and articles have been published and awarded by peers. Russell Rock works as an artist and urban designer. He attended Alma College as an undergraduate, studying Art and English, did coursework at College for Creative Studies, and holds an M.F.A. in Painting from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. During his time with the Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio at Kent State University (UDC), he collaborated on the City of Kent/Kent State University Framework Plan, a cooperative redevelopment urban design between a city and its university, and the Ohio & Erie Canal National Historic Corridor, an regional analysis that successfully obtained National Cultural Historic Corridor designation for a 75 mile long collection of towns, villages, and municipalities surrounding the route of the old Canal. Russell did design work, research, grantswriting, and project management while at the UDC. In LA he has worked on public projects with various community groups in Hollywood and San Pedro. Russell has taught architecture and urban design at Kent State University, where he has Visiting Critic in Urban Design, and currently teaches architecture at Pasadena City College.
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