Hip-Hop Architecture

This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods overly intellectualized the profession and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion oppression and domination rather than expression aspiration and inspiration. This book is not for conformists-Black White or other. . As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifesto-the voice of the underrepresented marginalized and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces buildings and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip-hop''s cultural expression and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas.. Examining the present and the future of Hip-Hop Architecture the book also explores its historical antecedents and its theory placing it in a wider context both within architecture and within Black and African American movements. Throughout the work is illustrated with inspirational case studies of architectural projects and creative practices and interspersed with interludes and interviews with key architects designers and academics in the field. This is a vital and provocative work that will appeal to architects designers students theorists and anyone interested in a fresh view of architecture design race and culture.. Includes Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.