Kindle Notes & Highlights
Hip-hop scholarship, partly by design and partly by virtue of its sheer existence—and the social logics it unleashes, the epistemic approaches it endorses, the existential crises it reveals, the moral dilemmas it addresses—shakes the foundations of American scholarship.
Architecture is the literal projection, in raised structures, of our beliefs about what settings we should live in and look at; what abodes we should make permanent, at least for a while, paradoxically enough; and what structures we should view as the realization of civilization’s imagination about itself and its values. Hip-Hop Architecture reflects the values and visions of hip-hop culture, a social force that for too long was easily dismissed but that, now, has seized the reins of the culture and has made it look and listen.
Hiphopitecture must occur as cooperative, not competitive, processes—it must lend itself to building and sustaining communities, to be affirmative, not detrimental or destructive.
