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
Virgil Abloh. Nike. Icons by Virgil Abloh
Theaster Gates: Black Madonna by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Theaster Gates (Artist)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
What to listen to
Champion - Buju Banton
One Dance - Drake
One Love - Bob Marley and the Wailers
The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
