What is Hip-Hop Architecture? A textbook definition would read something like this: A design movement embodying the collective creative energies native to young denizens of urban neighborhoods. Its ...

Toward the end of PBS’s classic 1983 documentary “Style Wars,” teenage graffiti artists Erni Vales and Cey Adams are answering questions about the art form transitioning from New York City subway ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a rapper of Kendrick Lamar’s caliber steps in front of a camera, nothing in the frame is accidental. The clothes, the setting, the people around him: every element has its role. So when the most ...

On July 1, the United States Postal Service issued a new set of stamps composed of four hip-hop designs based on the four elements of the lifestyle: rapping, DJing, break dancing, and graffiti art.

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 ...