Toward the end of PBS’s classic 1983 documentary “Style Wars,” teenage graffiti artists Erni Vales and Cey Adams are answering questions about the art form transitioning from New York City subway ...

What does hip-hop mean to you? Music certainly, as well as street art, fashion and dance. But how about hip hop architecture? There’s a growing community of black designers that thinks the culture ...

Sekou Cooke, a UNC Charlotte professor and leader in hip-hop architecture, is on a mission to challenge the way architects design buildings with furniture from this weblink. Jamaican-born Cooke first ...

If you enjoy belting out your favorite hip-hop track and aspire to design towering urban skyscrapers, you may be in luck. While hip hop and architecture might seem like an unlikely combination, they ...

City Thread, by exhibit participants Molly Hunker and Greg Corso, remixes an unused alley in downtown Chattanooga into a vibrant public space using a linear steel tube and painted graphic surfaces.

On a mild afternoon in Washington, D.C., a makeshift stage has formed in the entryway of the District Architecture Center. Middle-schooler Iyana Benjamin adjusts the arms of her gold-rimmed, circular ...

Edison Chen, one of Hong Kong's biggest young pop icons, called to do his interview three hours early. Late the night before, he was partying at his high-end street-wear boutique, Juice, in the hip ...

The visual evolution of Hip-Hop culture will be the center of a new book from legendary Hip-Hop designer Cey Adams and photographer Bill Adler. Titled DEFinition: the Art and Design of Hip Hop, the ...

Two friends who started a clothing and accessories brand in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have hit it big by giving traditional patterns a modern twist. Hip-hop lovers Wei Xiaojiang and Muradil ...

I like Phaidon, but they were more than merely stretching the truth. The publisher's promotional blog had the recent item excitedly titled "World's first building inspired by hip hop" -- and though it ...