Architects You Should Know: Sekou Cooke
Born in Jamaica and now Director of the Master of Urban Design program at UNC Charlotte, Sekou Cooke's practice proves hip-hop architecture isn't just theory, it's being built. For his 2021 MoMA project "We Outchea," Cooke examined Syracuse's 15th Ward, once a dense Black neighborhood bulldozed for public housing, then demolished again for highways. His proposal? Sample and remix those layers of history into something new, centering the area's legacy as a public space for Black communities.
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