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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a mild afternoon in Washington, D.C., a makeshift stage has formed in the entryway of the District Architecture Center. Middle-schooler Iyana Benjamin adjusts the arms of her gold-rimmed, circular ...

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 ...

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.

I like Phaidon, but they were more than merely stretching the truth. The publisher's promotional blog had the recent item excitedly titled "World's first building inspired by hip hop" -- and though it ...

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 ...

What does hip-hop mean to you? Music certainly, as well as street art, fashion and dance. But how about hip hop architecture? There’s a growing community of black designers that thinks the culture ...

What if a dog bit you? Then the dog bit your style, before you eventually became the dog? Impossible, right? Not in virtual reality. This multi-layered VR idea was explored by Lupe Fiasco, Chino XL, ...

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 ...

Edison Chen, one of Hong Kong's biggest young pop icons, called to do his interview three hours early. Late the night before, he was partying at his high-end street-wear boutique, Juice, in the hip ...