Sekou Cooke Studio

05/23/2018

https://www.archdaily.com/894887/stop-talking-kanye-no-more-defense-for-kanye-west?ad_content=894887&ad_medium=widget&ad_name=editors-choice

Since his 2013 article “Keep Talking Kanye: An Architect’s Defense of Kanye West,” Sekou Cooke has been an unwilling Kanye apologist. Now he's done.

11/29/2017

https://privatesideofpublic.work/notes/20 New Podcast interview

Hip-hop architecture. Is it a paradox? Or is it inevitable? On the one side: structured formality by necessity. On the other: a powerful counterculture defying formality. It seems that hip-hop doesn’t want to be architecture; and architecture doesn’t want to be hip-hop...yet. Sekou Cooke puts hi...

06/30/2017

http://www.archdaily.com/874826/envisioning-a-hip-hop-urbanism-in-washington-dc

The following is a manifesto, in search of a movement.. In it, I am proposing a theory of architecture based around a ruffneck, antisocial, hip-hop,...

08/28/2016

http://www.sekoucooke.com/maplewood/

A 1920's era four-square colonial house in Maplewood, NJ was the starting point for this addition/renovation project. The house existed as a four bedroom, one bathroom building with a finished attic space that included an additional bedroom and bathroom. The design solution began with the insertio...

08/20/2016

Scouting shots for today's photo shoot. Final images to follow

04/28/2016

http://freeuniversitynyc.org/

LIBERATION LAB! 5th Annual May Day Free University with Rename&Reclaim / 5to Primero de Mayo de la Universidad Libre con Renombrar y Reclamar Saturday, April 30th, 11:30am-5pm Washington Square Park, Mannahatta, NYC

04/20/2016

First new construction building by finally re-open! Food co-op on Syracuse's South Side http://s.syracuse.com/c6qOCpW

Co-op reopens to the public and to members on April 20.

02/29/2016

https://sekoucooke.squarespace.com/blog/2016/2/28/tahha-nyc-video

Video from NYC event now live on Vimeo!

01/20/2016

#26 of 50:

As the first month of 2016 draws to a close, we decided to tap into our network and ask an esteemed group of architects, critics, theorists and...

10/27/2015

Op-ed published this morning on ArchDaily.com

There has been much debate, speculation and excitement among architectural enthusiasts about who is on the shortlist to design the Barack Obama...

10/08/2015

https://sekoucooke.squarespace.com/blog/2015/10/7/chicago

I felt lucky to find myself in Chicago this past weekend during the opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. I was there primarily to attend the Harvard GSD Alumni Event and the Adaptive Architectures and Smart Materials Conference hosted by the GSD and Merck. Here are some photo highlights o…