Untapped Design Journal | Print Edition 003

84 pages, plus a special central booklet and foldout images.

Photographer Charlie Schuck on Louis Kahn's Shapiro House, designer Jonathan Nesci on finding order and beauty in a world not built for the neurodivergent, and Peter Miller, owner of the beloved Peter Miller Books, on the domestic ritual of making whipped cream.

Kate Wagner writes about the reasons behind Gen Z's nostalgia for McMansions and Edwin Heathcote makes a case for what architectural verbiage really means. Jesse Dorris explores how Jay Stern's paintings of houses and interiors double as portraits of their inhabitants, while Rarify co-founders Jeremy Bilotti and David Rosenwasser talk about identifying quality in furniture. Other contributors include Sarah Archer, Diana Budds, and Michele Oka Doner. 

At the journal's center is a booklet. It's printed with intimate narratives by ten creative minds - Carol Ross Barney, Stan Bitters, Jenny and Anda French, David Godshall, Raven Halfmoon, Elizabeth Browning Jackson, Barbara Kasten, Mira Nakashima , Norman Teague, and Craig L. Wilkinson what they learned from the first thing they ever made.

Untapped believes that both the near and distant past hold valuable insights for architects and designers. People have already solved, or are making headway on, many of the challenges the industry currently faces—but such achievements are often overlooked among an excess of data or in the pursuit of innovation, or when they are presented in convoluted ways. These stories unpack and add a fresh critical perspective to those achievements, explaining why they’re significant and how they can be useful right now.

Untapped is not anti-innovation. They believe that the most efficient path to progress begins with building on what we know. This is the information that the journal is dedicated to gathering, making sense of, and reflecting on, and that we can’t afford to forget.

Collectively, Untapped’s stories form an encyclopedia of ideas: a gateway to knowledge that serves as a timeless, ever-growing resource for all.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Untapped is an editorially independent initiative of the design company Henrybuilt. The journal does not feature any of its projects or products. Untapped’s focus—seeking to understand and leverage the best of the past to create a better future, a guiding principle of Henrybuilt—is what connects the two ventures.