Architecture related to hip-hop is about built ideas inspired of music and dance, drawing in part from artistic ideas like sampling and rapping. Even more to the point, it’s mainly an urban form, one meant to be highly inventive while also addressing issues like poverty and blight — but also the material desires we associate with aspiring DJs and emcees. — smartplanet.com
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Physically building out graffiti is the least hip-hop thing I can think off.
If you want hip-hop architecture look no further than the OG Frank Gehry.
This is an incredible literal interpretation, but not uninteresting. The notion of using graffiti to generate form has a lot of potential. Just check out Herzog & De Meuron's graffiti gate for their NYC Bond Street project. It is also filled with irony given the $3K+/SF price tag of the development. I think that architecture is infused with the essence of hip hop in that it is organized by the street and born of copying, transforming, and combining other forms or architectures in similar way that sampling is used in the creation of hip hop tracks. Calling architecture "hip-hop architecture" is redundant.
Graffiti becomes architecture in a literal super graphic extrusion on the elevation of a building, completely removing the possibility for any other interpretation rendering the building completely boring. A hip hop Randy's doughnuts for dimwits lacking the ability to process abstraction.
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