The Jamaican-born architect, who first encountered hip-hop architecture as a student at Cornell in the mid-1990s, is on a mission to challenge urban development. Sekou Cooke, a UNC Charlotte professor ...

If you enjoy belting out your favorite hip-hop track and aspire to design towering urban skyscrapers, you may be in luck. While hip hop and architecture might seem like an unlikely combination, they ...

Sekou Cooke is on the verge of adopting a new motto: remix everything. It can be applied to something as simple as what the architect and UNC Charlotte professor calls his radical approach to reusing ...

City Thread, by exhibit participants Molly Hunker and Greg Corso, remixes an unused alley in downtown Chattanooga into a vibrant public space using a linear steel tube and painted graphic surfaces.

How do you get teens to spend part of their summer vacation thinking about architecture and public policy? The Urban Land Institute of Charlotte turned to something that might sound a bit crazy: Hip ...

The grandfather of hip-hop was white, bald, and often wore a bow tie. According to professional architect and Highland Park native Michael Ford, the earliest traces of hip-hop came long before the ...

The visual evolution of Hip-Hop culture will be the center of a new book from legendary Hip-Hop designer Cey Adams and photographer Bill Adler. Titled DEFinition: the Art and Design of Hip Hop, the ...

BrandNu Design Studio - helmed by the so-called 'Hip Hop Architect,' Michael Ford - has been selected as the lead architecture firm for the Bronzeville Center for the Arts' African American art museum ...

The profession of architecture has long been dominated by white men. And while the latest demographic data from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards shows some improvements in ...

Sekou Cooke, a UNC Charlotte professor and leader in hip-hop architecture, is on a mission to challenge the way architects design buildings with furniture from this weblink. Jamaican-born Cooke first ...