Sekou Cooke

Master of Urban Design, UNC Charlotte

Sekou Cooke is an architect, urban designer, researcher, and curator. Born in Jamaica and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, he is the Director of the Master of Urban Design program at UNC Charlotte, the 2021/2022 Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, and a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective.

In his architectural practice, the work of sekou cooke STUDIO is centered on the exploration of Hip-Hop Architecture: an approach to contemporary design that embraces hip-hop culture and applies its shape, structure, and ideologies to the built environment. The studio has received widespread recognition for its design work including ​​a 2022 Emerging Voices award from The Architectural League of New York.