Sekou Cooke

Sekou Cooke is a Jamaican-born architect. During his six-year tenure at Michael Davis Architects, a small but prominent Manhattan-based firm, he served as a project architect on a wide range of endeavors, including the Ikat: Splendid Silks of Central Asia exhibition at the Denver Art Museum (2001), the Symphony Veterinarian Center in New York, and the Kim-Farges Studio, a combination apartment and piano rehearsal studio in New York.

He went on to cofound slap.ink Architectural Collective, which has designed many independent projects such as Teamworks, a high-end sneaker store in New York; Fanny, a French restaurant in Brooklyn; and the prototype store for Skin Lingerie in Piermont, New York, which was recently featured in Women's Wear Daily.

Sekou is currently a project architect at Seidel/Holzman in San Francisco, a small firm with a 15-year history that specializes in multifamily residential and mixed-use projects as well as residential master planning. He is a registered architect in the state of New York, and he is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.