In 2021, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, bought a beach house in Malibu, designed by the master architect Tadao Ando, for $57.3 million. No living architect seems more likely to make a wealthy buyer feel that he’s buying not just a fine home but the work of a major modern artist. An Ando house requires expensive and exacting construction; it has a controlled, sober beauty that photographs well and that communicates contemporary, if not avant-garde, taste. And it is rare. Ye admired Ando and wa