E55 Sekou Cooke: Creation of Hip-Hop Architecture.

Today's episode is with architect Sekou Cooke. Sekou is one of the leading advocates for the study and practice of Hip-Hop Architecture, a practice that poses hip-hop as architecture and uses the language of design to investigate its construction.

In today's episode, we explore why urban design cannot exist without hip-hop. We lean into what can happen if we start to understand the nature of urban environments, and Sekou reminds us that whether it is hip-hop, your career, or practice, it's essential to make sure love is at the center of what you do.

Things mentioned

Artist, Architect, and Fashion designer Virgil Abloh

“Figures of Speech” exhibition at Brooklyn Musuem dedicated to the work of Virgil Abloh

Artist Theaster Gates

Artist Lauren Halsey

Urban Planner Robert Moses

Post–World War II development StuyTown

Architect Beverly Lorraine Greene

Bricolage is the construction of a sculpture, or a structure of ideas achieved by using whatever comes to hand

What to read

Hip-Hop Architecture by Sekou Cooke

Abloh-Isms by Virgil Abloh