Tom Ford Ranch Aerial View | © Guido MocaficoCompleted in 2012, Tom Ford’s Ranch, designed by Japanese Architect Tadao Ando has a serene Japanese aesthetic that blends surprisingly well with the 24,000-acre ranch arid terrain of Santa Fe, USA. Designed for the famous fashion designer, the project provides a fully equipped equine facility and stunning expansive views. It was designed with local management and oversight by the LA-based design-build firm Marmol-Radziner & Associates. Tom Ford’s Ranch Technical InformationArchitect: Tadao Ando | Tadao Ando ProfileLocation: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USASite: 24,000 acreProject Year: 2012Topics: Desert Architecture, Concrete, Ranches, Circle SeriesClient: Tom FordPhotography: © Guido Mocafico, © Corrie Photography, © Vantage PhotographyDwelling in a house is not only a functional issue, but also a spiritual one.– Tadao AndoTom Ford’s Ranch PhotographsTom Ford Ranch Exterior View | © Guido MocaficoTom Ford Ranch | © Corrie PhotographyTom Ford Ranch Water Feature | © Vantage Photography. 2013Tom Ford Ranch Aerial View | © Guido Mocafico© Guido MocaficoTom Ford, who had also studied architecture in his youth, commissioned a project fifteen years ago to Alberto Campo Baeza, but the authorities of New Mexico did not approve it. Finally, Ford again took up the idea of a ranch, this time commissioning Tadao Ando.Introducing bold geometry and his stoic signature concrete walls into the New Mexico landscape, Ando envelopes and highlights portions of barren land and turns them into monumental ‘scapes of form and light. The surrounding landscape’s rustic color palette permeates into the complex, filling the space with burnt soil tones and the heavy blues of the sky and water. Add Ando’s skillful control of circulation to the mix, and you essentially have a sprawling chapel in the desert.If you spend time on our ranch or in the American West or anywhere in nature, all of a sudden, all the things you worry about all the time fade away. Th