The relationship between Kanye West and architecture Architecture is one of Ye's greatest passions

Since his return to the scenes a few years ago, Kanye West seems to have taken over that enormous amount of ideas and suggestions that have always populated his mind. One of them comes directly from the recent interview published by GQ in which Kanye came back to talk about one of his passions that, together with music and fashion, has accompanied him for years: architecture. 

A lifelong art lover, Ye has shown interest in the world of architecture since his first days, when in his blog KanyeUniverseCity he compiled a list of his favorite architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Moshe Safdie and Axel Vervoordt. It was with Vervoordt that West built the closest bond, which started in 2013 at The European Fine Art Fair and went as far as an intimate and desperate request after Ye's mental breakdown, when Vanessa Beecroft asked the Belgian designer to «save Kanye's life». How? With the architecture, of course.

In 2018 West announced on Twitter his intention to establish a division of his brand dedicated exclusively to architecture, calling together designers and architects to be part of his Yeezy Home project, launching a series of renderings by Jalil Peraza. In addition to those renderings, in which the normcore taste that was later reviewed in the KimYe house designed by Vervoordt stood out, very little was seen of that project other than the construction of some prototypes, later demolished, of houses for homeless people inspired by Star Wars. But Kanye's new phase seems to have given new fuel to a project that, in one way or another, finds its roots in 2013, when a West in the midst of the Yeezus period climbed onto a Harvard Graduate School of Design table to announce to everyone that «the world can be saved through design, and everything needs to actually be architected».