Issue Thirty-One The spring issue of Kinfolk builds on our foundational interest in design to consider the discipline in its most ambitious manifestation: architecture.
As the weather turns warmer, our thoughts follow; this issue\'s essays find our writers lingering on balconies, musing on the impossibility of turning over a new leaf and biting down on the juicy history of the peach..
Elsewhere in the issue, we meet Sharon Van Etten, who talks about why she chose to study psychology while writing her new album, and we spend a day in the studio with Kyle Abraham--the choreographer making history at the New York City Ballet.
We also interview those who have bridged the divide and made their strangest whims a reality: like Asif Khan, whose belief in a future where architecture is light, intelligent and simple inspired him to build with bubbles.
This issue of Kinfolk will pay homage to the architects with dreams too big for city planners to swallow--from an investigation into the history of utopian design to a photo essay about the most visionary projects that have been demolished, or simply never-built, over the last century.
Equally, the things we build--or wish to build--reflect our own state of mind; blueprints of the ways in which we hope to reinvent the world.
Buildings affect the mood and behavior of their inhabitants.
We interrogate this close relationship between external surroundings and interior wellbeing and meet the architects chipping away at the partition wall between the two.
Mid-century architect and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand, whose archives we delve into in this issue, once wrote: The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living.
Issue Thirty-One The spring issue of Kinfolk builds on our foundational interest in design to consider the discipline in its most ambitious manifestation: architecture
