Buildings affect the mood and behavior of their inhabitants. Equally, the things we build—or wish to build—reflect our own state of mind; they are blueprints of the ways in which we hope to live. The latest issue of Kinfolk explores this close relationship between external surroundings and interior well-being and profiles the architects chipping away at the partition wall between the two.
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In a New York studio, the choreographer dances, rehearses and breaks down the meaning of his “postmodern gumbo” technique with Djassi DaCosta Johnson.
Amid the turbo-development and futuristic cities of the Arabian Gulf, two architects have found a slower pace—and each other—in Bahrain.
Inside the French Riviera villa that Eileen Gray built, Le Corbusier “vandalized”—and history almost forgot.
S,M,X,XL: Our editors apply a Koolhaasian taxonomy to some favorite architecture books.
In Malta, an exploration of the architecture of Richard England—the fun uncle of Mediterranean modernism.
Inspired by the overcomplicated machines of Rube Goldberg, follow the trail to watch a flower—finally—get watered.
Marriage is a shape-shifting institution. What’s love got to do with it?
Harriet Fitch Little speaks to Sharon Van Etten about new music, motherhood and going back to school.
Kenzo Tange fired up one of the 20th century’s most ambitious architectural movements—but he kept his own home simple.
The celebrated Japanese composer reveals the oddly shaped edges of his constantly questing mind.
Neda Semnani charts the life of a merchant sailor turned Harlem literary colossus.
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