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 mentionedArtist, Architect, and Fashion designer Virgil Abloh“Figures of Speech” exhibition at Brooklyn Musuem dedicated to the work of Virgil AblohArtist Theaster GatesArtist Lauren Halsey Urban Planner Robert MosesPost–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 handWhat to readHip-Hop Architecture by Sekou CookeAbloh-Isms by Virgil Abloh Virgil Abloh. Nike. Icons by Virgil AblohTheaster Gates: Black Madonna by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Theaster Gates (Artist)The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. CaroAsk and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther Hicks and Jerry HicksThe Secret by Rhonda ByrneWhat to listen toChampion - Buju Banton One Dance - Drake One Love -  Bob Marley and the WailersThe Breaks - Kurtis Blow