Tickets to the VIP hour are SOLD OUT! If you are a Changemaker or sponsor and would like to reach someone about attending, please email laurah@museumofdesign.org. Tickets to the general opening are available here: https://givebutter.com/HHAOpen...

MODA Changemakers are invited to join us for a VIP reception kicking off the opening party celebrating our new exhibition, Close to the Edge: the Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, curated by Sekou Cooke.

You'll have the exhibition to yourselves for an hour and are welcome to stay for the rest of the evening.

During this VIP preview, you can take in this new exhibition and chat with the curator as you listen to a soundtrack provided by DJ Jazzy T, nibble light bites, meet the curator, and sip a drink. General admission opens at 7:00pm and at 7:30pm we'll enjoy a performance by Soul Food Cypher, an organization that utilizes freestyle rap and lyricism to transform individuals and communities.

6:00pm. Changemaker & VIP Preview

7:00pm. General Admission Opens

7:30pm. Performance by Soul Food Cypher

9:00pm. Party Ends

Free for MODA supporters at the Changemaker Level or Above ($500+ contribution annually)

About Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture:

Hip-Hop, the dominant cultural movement of our time, was established by the Black and Latino youth of New York’s South Bronx neighborhood in the early 1970s. Over the last five decades, hip-hop’s primary means of expression — deejaying, emceeing, b-boying, and graffiti — have become globally recognized creative practices in their own right, and each has significantly impacted the urban built environment.

Hip-Hop Architecture is a design movement that embodies the collective creative energies native to young denizens of urban neighborhoods. Its designers produce spaces, buildings, and environments that translate hip-hop’s energy and spirit into built form. Some 25 years in the making, Hip-Hop Architecture is finally receiving widespread attention within the discipline of architecture thanks to a series of influential essays, lectures, and presentations by Craig Wilkins, Michael Ford, and this show’s curator, Sekou Cooke. During this period of emergence, the movement’s ideals have primarily been tested by a loosely organized group of pioneering individuals, each using hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke and evoke architectural form. Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture exhibits the work of these pioneers — students, academics, and practitioners — at the center of this emerging architectural revolution.

The exhibition includes work by participants from across the globe, with projects ranging across a variety of media and forms of expression: from experimental visualization formats and installation strategies, to façade studies, building designs, and urban development proposals. In aggregate, these projects reveal a collective vision for alternative forms of expression and practice, and serve to formalize work created over the past 25 years into an emerging canon of Hip-Hop Architecture.

Cancellation Policy:

If you must cancel your plans, please notify us at least 7 days prior to the event start to receive a refund of the ticket cost minus a $10 processing fee per class. Refunds are not available if we are notified less than 7 days prior to the event start.

Refunds are not available if you fail to notify us or attend the event.

MODA reserves the right to cancel a program if registration for the event does not meet the minimum enrollment requirements. If MODA cancels a program, a full refund will be issued to all registrants.

We are grateful for the generous support of benefactors who have helped us bring this exhibition to Atlanta:

VIP Exhibition Preview for Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture

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