Jeanine Centuori (born 1959 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American architect, public artist, educator and principal and founding partner of the firm UrbanRock Design in Los Angeles, CA.
She has served as Chair of the Undergraduate School of Architecture,[3] and, in 2011, she became the director of Woodbury University’s Agency for Civic Engagement (ACE), a program that “connects students and faculty with non-profit and governmental organizations that are dedicated to helping underserved communities”.
[4] ACE’s design/build work has included housing for the homeless on LA’s Skid Row,[2] garden sheds for non-profit organization Take the Reins,[3] and multi-use structures for a non-profit equine therapy program.
[5] In 2016, Centuori was elevated to a Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects for her work with ACE; a “significant contribution to architecture and society” which has “inspired over five hundred architecture students and impacted over thirty communities with built projects, programs, and visions for their growth.” [6] UrbanRock Design was founded in 2000 as a partnership between architect Centuori and designer Russell Rock.
Her work has been exhibited at the Pacific Design Center as part of the Association for Women in Architecture show and at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles as part of the “NEW BLOOD: Next Gen”[10] exhibit.