Rosalie Genevro is an architectural historian and urbanist. She led the Architectural League of New York as Executive Director from 1985 to 2023, pursuing the Leagueʼs mission of nurturing excellence and stimulating discussion and debate on issues in architecture, design, and urbanism.

At the League, engaging a wide range of public forums and platforms, Ms. Genevro organized design studies, directed exhibitions, initiated digital publications, conceived and edited print publications, and guided the creation of live public events including lectures, panels, conferences, symposia, and roundtable discussions. The New York City-focused design studies she directed include “Vacant Lots,” on affordable infill housing for small sites, “New Schools for New York,” on design and development strategies to create small public schools, “The Productive Park,” on parks and the water supply, “Envisioning East New York,” and “Arverne: Housing on the Edge.” Digital projects include worldviewcities.org, which presented reports by local young architects on out-of-the mainstream cities around the world, and urbanomnibus.net, a publication, focused on New York City, that raises new questions, illuminates diverse perspectives, and documents creative projects to advance the collective work of citymaking. She directed the creation of major traveling exhibitions, including “Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Selected Projects,” “Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World,” and “Urban Life: Housing in the Contemporary City.” She conceived and directed the multiformat League project “The Five Thousand Pound Life: Architecture, Climate Change, and our Economic Future,” and, with Nicholas Anderson, directed American Roundtable, which commissioned reports from nine teams around the United States on the interaction of the built environment with issues including health and economy in specific rural areas and small cities.
 
Earlier in her career Ms. Genevro worked as research director of a non-profit housing advisory organization, and issues of housing affordability, availability, and design remain an abiding interest.

Ms. Genevro has served as a peer reviewer for the NYC Departments of Design and Construction, City Planning, Cultural Affairs, and Parks and Recreation; as a grant review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts; and as a critic and juror for many architecture school juries and other prize competitions. She is a member of the New York Committee of the Regional Plan Association and served as a member of the executive committee for Ideas City, a biannual festival of new ideas for cities organized by the New Museum and a consortium of downtown cultural organizations. Ms. Genevro received a 2015 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2023 Women in Architecture award from Architectural Record. She studied history and architectural history at Occidental College and Cornell University.

Ms. Genevro's CV is available here.