:Untapped

‘We believe that the built environment is about more than news and aspirational interiors, or academic philosophizing and critique. It is also about something bigger: our lives.’

This exciting document seeks to show how the everyday infrastucture around us might be used to improve the spaces we live in and objects we rely on. It is an editorially independent initiative of the design company HENRYBUILT.

The second issue considers New York’s Chinatown as a readymade, Nancy Holt’s 1980s “System Works” installations, the enduring impacts of the architectural print shop and gallery a83, work by American Studio Craft legends Wendy Maruyama and Tom Loeser, and more, with contributions by Diana Budds, Jarrett Fuller, Josh Itiola, Edwin Heathcote, Shane Reiner-Roth, and Alissa Walker, among others.

About :Untapped

Untapped is a design journal that looks back to look forward.

Our stories identify the most important knowledge about improving the built environment, and contextualize it for today and tomorrow.

We believe 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. Our 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. We 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 OUR 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.

External links:
http://:Untapped Journal

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Book Specifications:
128 x 278mm, 84 pages, with tipped in photo section and fold outs.
Published in New York, USA 2024
Editor: Tiffany Jow
Art director: Yeliz Secerli