Architecture uses many of the same creative principles as hip-hop music, the curator of an exhibition tracking the relationship between the musical genre and designing buildings, Sekou Cooke, says in this interview.

Titled "Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture", the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibition showcases the work of 34 designers, artists and activists.

Hip-hop architecture is a term applied to architecture that takes influence from the culture of hip-hop music.

Like the music, the architectural styles are rooted in the experience of people of colour in the United States, particularly the tradition of solidifying identities through improvisation and reusing resources.

"[Hip hop] is something that's constantly adapting, constantly changing, constantly redefining itself," Cooke told Dezeen. "It's always layered and improvisational."