Photography: Where Architects Live does exactly what it says on the tin

Date
7 March 2014

There’s a natural compunction to measure creatives by the choices they make in the exact fields in which they work. Where do chefs eat? What do authors read? And now where do architects live, which is the subject of a show planned for this year’s Milan Salone.

Having photographed the houses of the likes of David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Shigeru Ban, the curators will build an interactive exhibition recreating their spaces. Let’s be honest here; on one level this works simply by satiating our nosiness into their lives. But more than that they can be studied in the hunt for clues as to whether theses creatives practice what they preach. Are their rooms packed full of discernible distillations of the ideas that underpin their work, or in actual fact even architects separate the professional and the personal with spaces that bear little resemblance to their practice. Either way, this promises to be one of the highlights of Milan 2014.

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Where Architects Live: Zaha Hadid (Photo by Davide Pizzigoni)

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Where Architects Live: Mario Bellini (Photo by Davide Pizzigoni)

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Where Architects Live: Mario Bellini (Photo by Davide Pizzigoni)

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Where Architects Live: David Chipperfield (Photo by Simon Menges)

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Where Architects Live: David Chipperfield (Photo by Simon Menges)

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Where Architects Live: Shigeru Ban (Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai)

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Where Architects Live: Shigeru Ban (Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai)

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Where Architects Live: Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (Photo by Aki Furudate)

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Where Architects Live: Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (Photo by Aki Furudate)

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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