"[Architects] have this idea of, 'Okay, once I have this home, and I've handed it off to the client, it has to remain the same way as when I passed it off,' " Censori said. "But that's not how people use space. I think that the destruction of the home was beautiful to me, and I think symbolic also of that time."
""The thing about destruction is it gives life to something else," Censori said. "So when I would enter that house that was quote, unquote destroyed, bats were living inside of it, and the sea salt had taken over the steel that was in the house and was rusting." Expounding, she said that "a tree is the shape of a tree, because that's what nature does or whatever.""
Bianca Censori holds a master's degree in architecture and participated in radically altering the Richard Sachs Residence, a 2013 Tadao Ando–designed home in Malibu. After Kanye West purchased the property in 2021, Censori and the architecture team removed plumbing, windows, doors, and significant portions of Ando's design. Following West's loss of major business relationships and inability to maintain the house, the property was left exposed to the elements. Censori characterized the destruction as beautiful and symbolic, described nature reclaiming the structure with bats and rust, and framed change as a natural use of space rather than preservation.
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