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Building “Hip-Hop Architecture” Into Urban Design

WUTC

Published May 16, 2022 at 2:20 PM EDT

Sekou Cooke is an architect and urban designer now based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

He is the director of the urban design program at UNC Charlotte - and author of the book “Hip-Hop Architecture,” which examines the movement that channels the energies of hip-hop culture into urban architecture with meaningful input and impact from marginalized and underrepresented voices at the community level.

On Thursday starting at 5:30 PM, Sekou will give a talk at Stove Works here in Chattanooga for CIVIQ, the speaker series from Chattanooga Design Studio.

I spoke with him and Josiah Golson, artist and programs director of Stove Works.