Statement Hip-Hop architecture : Learning to listen to the post-occupancy report The intersection of Hip-Hop culture and architecture is clear. The rebellious music began by sporadically emerging, from Harlem to of modern housing Brooklyn, in the New York City housing projects. The first “real” Hip-Hop projects in New York song, The Message by Grandmaster-flash, is an objective portrait of these urban centers and how people interact with the buildings. As the City and trying to heal genres evolved, this relationship with the housing projects, often these communities by referenced to as “the blocks” or the “concrete jungle”, is still consulting them. omnipresent. Acknowledging these premises, it becomes important to stop seeing Hip-Hop as only some kind of outlaw music when it truly is a Location : New York City post-occupancy report of modernism. To put it in a famous street poet's words ; Isn't it hard to speak right when you only see wrong? Date : June 2021 Duration : 30 days This travel will undertake a mission rarely prioritized in school : Field study and meeting with communities. Through a series of interviews, sketches, pictures and tours ; I will explore how Hip-Hop empowered these communities and give them a voice. The aim will also be to Schedule Bullet-points understand how this reflected in their interactions with the (in no particular order) private-public realm that the projects offer. From that point, some conclusions could be drawn about the dynamics of spaces within these Hip-Hop Tours urban organizations ; especially the attention given to their shared spaces and the social dynamics they provide. How to shift the negative Birthplace of Hip-Hop dynamics happening when young people meet in these places to one Where Brooklyn At? that offers growth and hopes? Boogie Down Bronx. Walk This Way Through talking and studying communities and their built realms, it is Harlem Dancers Delight, going to be possible to extensively build a book of recommendations Hello Brooklyn supported by visual and written observations. Without pretension, the approach will mainly be about listening and compiling ideas, critics Site Visits and comments from the experts of these urban fabrics : The people that experienced it all their lives. 1520 Sedgwick Avenue Hip-Hop Boulevard Bronx’s Cedar Playground 149 Street-Grand Train Station Hollis, Queens Expenses The (Former) Tunnel Nightclub Universal Hip-Hop Museum Accommodation +/- Hip-Hop hall of fame Tours +/- Walt Whitman Houses, Brooklyn Museum entries +/- James Weldon Houses, Harlem Food +/- Amsterdam Houses, Up. West Side +/- 70$ /day Metro Card +/- Stapleton Houses, Staten Island 30 days unlimited Flight +/- Forest houses, Bronx Round trip YVR-NYC Phone Sim Chip +/- James Monroe Houses, Bronx 30 days Professional camera rental +/- Surfside Garden, Brooklyn +/- 300$/week Eleanor Roosevelt, Brooklyn sub-total +/- Elliott-Chelsea Houses, Chelsea Taxes +/- Ralph Rangel Houses, Harlem (8.875% N.Y.C taxes) Spanish Harlem houses, Harlem TOTAL +/- Bayview Houses, Brooklyn Marcy Houses, Brooklyn Queensbridge Houses, Queens StuyTown