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Architect and researcher Sekou Cooke joins the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute as a 2021-2022 fellow

2021-06-15T20:15:00-04:00

Jamaican-born architect, researcher, educator, and curator Sekou Cooke is named a W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow. The fellowship is part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

"The W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellowship program invites scholars, artists, public intellectuals, and activists across the humanities and social sciences to pursue independent projects encompassing Africa and its diasporas. Fellows arrive from the U.S., Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe to be in residence at the Hutchins Center for either a full academic year or one semester."

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research shares Cooke will be "in residence as a Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year," where he will work on his project 3D Turntables Remix: The Architectural Technology of Hip-Hop.

Cooke joins a cohort of fifteen other research fellows.

"As architec...

UNC Charlotte School of Architecture names Sekou Cooke as new director of the Master of Urban Design program

2021-03-24T14:04:00-04:00

UNC Charlotte's School of Architecture welcomes Sekou Cooke to its faculty as the Director of the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program. Cooke is an acclaimed architect, educator, curator, and researcher whose work exemplifies a career in shaping design practice with social justice, sustainability, and public service through architecture and urban planning.

Before his transition as the new Director, Cooke is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. The Jamaican-born architect received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. His practice Sekou Cooke Studio "brings thoughtful processes and rigorous experimentation to a vast array of project types from public, non-profit, and residential works" in addition to "speculative developments locally and internationally."

As an educator and researcher, his latest work focuses on the fields of Hip-Hop Architecture. In 2018 Archinect spoke wi...

Hip-Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke

2018-09-28T14:12:00-04:00

On this latest episode of Archinect Sessions we talk with Sekou Cooke, Syracuse-based architect, educator and curator of the upcoming exhibition at the Center for Architecture, "Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture", scheduled to open this Monday, October 1st in New York City.

Sekou Cooke

Listen to episode 129 of Archinect Sessions, “Hip Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke”.

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