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Join us for the launch of Print Edition 004, taking place May 20, the final day of this year's @nycxdesign festival. To celebrate the new issue, which is focused on domestic rituals, we’ve commissioned a thematic site-specific performance you won’t want to miss—choreographed by Morgan Griffin (@baddgalmomo ) with live music by harpist Esther Sibiude (@school_of_harpiness ) and costumes by @greysstudio_ . Print Edition 004 has an evolved design that evokes the emotions in its stories, which feature @glenn_adamson , Dung Ngo (@misterngo ), Nozomi Mori (@sushimorinozomi ), @coryohlendorf , @ruth.reichl , @andrewrusseth , @jeppeugelvig , Hans Wegner, and Matthew Wong, among others. Tap the link in bio to RSVP for the performance and reception. See you there!

Mark your calendars: Print Edition 004 will be released on Wednesday, May 20, the last day of this year's @nycxdesign festival. If you’re in town, join us for a celebratory launch and performance that riffs on the journal’s theme of domestic rituals. It’s choreographed by Morgan Griffin (@baddgalmomo ) with live music by harpist Esther Sibiude (@school_of_harpiness ) and costumes by @greysstudio_ . Tap the link in bio to RSVP for the show and reception. Full details below. See you there! Print Edition 004 Launch + Performance Wednesday, May 20 5:30 p.m. Performance starts at 5:45 p.m. Hosted by @henrybuilt 16 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 [email protected]

Check out our new look! We loved the index-like design of our original website—but we’ve outgrown it. So we’ve been working with @f451.studio to create a new framework for our content. Live today, the website’s distilled design makes Untapped’s stories, and the ideas they unpack, easier to identify and explore. Our editor-in-chief, @tiffany_jow , and graphic designer, @yelizsecerli , walk us through its key features. There are now two ways to view our content. First, there’s the Content Map, which features our latest story and Untapped’s entire archive. See Key Ideas explored in every article at the bottom of the page. Then there’s the Knowledge Map, where you can view all stories’ Key Ideas, categorized by Topic and Subtopic, and find seminal research on each for further reading. It’s a curated starting point for diving deeper into a given subject, and a way to see how it’s connected within a network of knowledge for making our living spaces better. Whichever view you choose, you’ll encounter deep, different ways of thinking about improving domestic space. Tap the link in bio to start exploring all the bells and whistles. 📽️: @aimeesy_ #untappedjournal #untappedideas #architecturedesign #builtenvironment

In New York on May 20? Stop by the launch of Print Edition 004, focused on the theme of domestic rituals. We’ve commissioned a thematic site-specific performance for the occasion—choreographed by Morgan Griffin (@baddgalmomo ) with live music by harpist Esther Sibiude (@school_of_harpiness ) and costumes by @greysstudio_ . Print Edition 004 has an evolved design that evokes the emotions in its stories, which feature @glenn_adamson , Dung Ngo (@misterngo ), Nozomi Mori (@sushimorinozomi ), @coryohlendorf , @ruth.reichl , @andrewrusseth , @jeppeugelvig , Hans Wegner, and Matthew Wong, among others. Tap the link in bio to RSVP. Full details below. Print Edition 004 Launch + Performance Wednesday, May 20 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Performance starts at 5:45 p.m. Hosted by @henrybuilt 16 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 [email protected]

Architect Annie Chu, co-founder of @chugoodingarchitects , hadn’t spent much time reflecting on her childhood home. So she wrote a story about it, as a way to do so. Chu told that story at Making Space’s inaugural symposium, focused on the theme “The House I Grew Up In,” which took place in Los Angeles this past November before a live audience.   Tap the link in bio to read it, and follow along for details on when and where our next in-person symposium will take place.  (Pictured, in order of appearance: A young Chu, on a chair by the water; the Chu family in Hong Kong; the family with their dog, Tommy. Courtesy Annie Chu) #untappedjournal #untappedideas

“Architecture has developed a language that is concerned with what we might call its existential and theoretical needs rather than its purely practical requirements,” writes Edwin Heathcote (@heathcoteedwin ). “You might understand it as a need to create its own internal language in part as a defense against a hostile world (hostile, that is, to its more rarified ideas). You might interpret it as the natural outcome of a long training and a long history.”  “Or,” he continues, “you might suggest it is a deliberately exclusive bullshit crafted and adopted to maintain an air of intellectual hermeneutics and superiority.” Tap the link in bio to read the essay. #untappedjournal #untappedideas

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate @radnor.co ’s newest space: in the penthouse at @thebrooklyntower . The gallery presented “Through Light & Matter,” a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles–based textile artist @rachelduvall . It marked DuVall’s first solo presentation in New York City as she joins Radnor’s curated roster of artists and designers. The evening began with a conversation led by @untappedjournal ’s editor-in-chief, @tiffany_jow , between the artist and Radnor founder Susan Clark (@sueclarks ), about living with skillfully made objects. A reception followed. Photos: @thekateowen

When designer @samklemick moved from Illinois to Florida as a child, her parents kept their home’s regional aesthetic: “shadowy interiors, brown leather, yellowed lighting—a world apart from Miami’s blinding sun and tropical landscape,” as she describes it. These rooms, and the objects inside them, would go on to shape how she thinks about and makes furniture. Klemick shared her story at Making Space’s inaugural symposium, focused on the theme “The House I Grew Up In,” which took place in Los Angeles this past November before a live audience.   Tap the link in bio to read it, and follow along for details on when and where our next in-person symposium will take place.  (Pictured, in order of appearance: A young Klemick at home; plaid leather chairs surround a wooden table that remains in the family; the family’s brown leather couch remains clear in Kelmick’s memory. Courtesy Sam Klemick) #untappedjournal #untappedideas

“All great buildings and objects, no matter their size or grandeur, can create a feeling of reverence and connection to something larger,” says photographer @charlieschuck . He’s talking about Louis Kahn’s Shapiro House in Pennsylvania, which he photographed during an open house for the property a few years ago, after learning it was for sale.  “The brilliance of Kahn, and of the Shapiro House, lies in its ability to transcend literal design,” he continues. “It creates a livable environment that connects us to something ineffable. Every detail, from the door handles to the materials and their placement, works together to reinforce that feeling. You can have all the technical knowledge, resources, and skills in the world, but if a structure lacks soul, it’s just another building.” Tap the link in bio to read the story.  #untappedjournal #untappedideas

What does the right to housing mean in practice, and how can architects and other urban professionals contribute?  Architecture and the Right to Housing, a Pan-American program series organized by the University of Toronto’s @archhousing.lab from 2023 to 2025, convened leaders in the field for a day-long roundtable to share their responses.  Tap the link in bio to read an excerpt from the gathering in New York, which was convened by the Architecture and Housing Justice Lab and the Parsons Housing Justice Lab (@housingjusticelab_parsons ), and took place at the New School University Center this past October.  Around the table were: Robert Robinson (@partnersfordignity ) Cea Weaver (@cea4tenants ) Samuel Stein (@cssnyorg ) Margy Brown (@u.h.a.b ) Matthew Charney (@nychagram ) Laura Sara Wainer (@spitzerschool_ccny ) Brian Baldor (@nychousing ) Nathan Rich (@peterson_rich_office ) Brian Loughlin (@map_nyc ) Deborah Gans (@gansandco ) Conveners: Karen Kubey (@karenkubey ) Gabriela Rendón (@housingjusticelab_parsons ) Miguel Robles-Durán (@front_urban ) Untapped will publish edited transcripts from the program’s other roundtables in the coming months.  #untappedjournal #untappedideas

“When I think about home today, I see it as an environment that shapes our lives—and not just the architecture and the design of it,” says director Erich Joiner, founder of @toolofna . Joiner shared his story at Making Space’s inaugural symposium, focused on the theme “The House I Grew Up In,” which took place in Los Angeles this past November before a live audience.   Tap the link in bio to read it, and follow along for details on when and where our next in-person symposium will take place.  (Pictured, in order of appearance: Inside Erich Joiner’s childhood home in Redondo Beach, California; the family dog on their beloved Eames Lounge Chair; shells collected by Joiner’s mother. Courtesy Erich Joiner) #untappedjournal #untappedideas

Artist @kenturah grew up in a home located in the Los Angeles county community of Altadena, and bought her first home there in 2022. Both residences were tragically lost in the 2025 Eaton Fire, but the area, she says, “remains my anchor.”  Davis shared her story at Making Space’s inaugural symposium, focused on the theme “The House I Grew Up In,” which took place in Los Angeles this past November before a live audience.   Tap the link in bio to read it, and follow along for details on when and where our next in-person symposium will take place.  (Pictured, in order of appearance: A young Davis in the backyard of her family’s home; Davis’s childhood home, lost in the firestorms on January 8, 2025; Davis as an infant with her older sister and parents on the lawn of her paternal grandmother’s house. Courtesy Kenturah Davis) #untappedjournal #untappedideas