Untapped Journal

Los Angeles Roundtable: Architecture and the Right to Housing

Tiffany Jow

Why Genuine Patina is Personal, and Priceless

Glenn Adamson

Verbiage as Viagra

Edwin Heathcote

When a Photographer Stumbles upon a Home Designed by Louis Kahn

Charlie Schuck

New York Roundtable: Architecture and the Right to Housing

Tiffany Jow

The Space Behind What You Can See

Jonathan Nesci

The Right to Housing Is an Architectural Issue, Too

Karen Kubey

What Is Well-Made Furniture Actually Worth?

Jeremy Bilotti and David Rosenwasser

How Buildings Can Exist in a “Continual State of Becoming”

Anjulie Rao

Inside Jay Stern’s Living Arrangements

Jesse Dorris

Tilt-Up Concrete Is Having a Moment. Is It Ready for the Housing Crisis?

Ian Volner

Why the Subjects of McMansion Hell Have Ascended to McMansion Heaven

Kate Wagner

Why Bruno Munari Taught Designers to Embrace Flexibility

Jarrett Fuller

Among Air Conditioning and Ashes, the Hearth Prevails

Mimi Zeiger

Thoughts on A Pattern Language, from a Trained Architect and Seasoned Woodworker

Laura Mays

Bungalow Courts Could Give California the Boost It Needs

Shane Reiner-Roth

In Search of Past Beds

Ben Dreith

Everyday Objects as Portals to Our Primal Selves

Michele Oka Doner

In Defense of China Cabinets

Sarah Archer

Something’s Missing in This Updated Book of Not-So-Simple Designs

George Kafka

Why Craft Schools Matter

Michelle Millar Fisher

Formafantasma Digs into Referents and Rectangles

Sarah Archer

The Lesson I Learned at Summer Camp

Jarrett Fuller

Perception as Source Material

Pete Oyler

Neuroaesthetics Has Been Around for 25 Years. Are Architects Paying Attention Yet?

Diana Budds

Furniture That Supports Us, When and Where We Need It

Anjulie Rao

How Food Forests Could Reshape Our Cities

LinYee Yuan

Peter Shire and Ryan Preciado Talk Cups, Memphis, and Making Things That Last

Jonathan Griffin

What Terra-Cotta Can Teach Us About Beauty

Kriston Capps

Handling Hardware: Modernism and the Door

Edwin Heathcote

Why Are Most Real Estate Listings a Vibe Killer?

FOR SCALE

Hey, City Planners: Pay Attention to Skateboarders

Zach Moldof

The Overlooked Intelligence of Architectural B-Sides

Charlie Weak

After a 50-Year Pause, Archigram Keeps the Dream Alive

Anthony Paletta

In Praise of the Pedestrian

Phillip Cox

Some Chests of Drawers I Have Known

Roy McMakin

Why Are Scott Burton’s Benches Disappearing?

Mark Byrnes

A Mind-Body Experience of Architecture, Delivered in a Photo

Marianela D’Aprile

Seeing Chinatown as a Readymade

Philip Poon

The Place of the Handmade Artifact in a Tech-Obsessed Era

Anne Quito

How a Storied Printmaker Advances the Practice of Architecture

Diana Budds

Sounding Out a Better Way to Build

Jesse Dorris

What It Means—and What It’s Worth—to Be “Light”

Julie Lasky

Redefining “Iconic” Architecture and Ideals

Sophie Lovell

Surrendering to What Is

Marianne Krogh

Sometimes, Democratic Design Doesn’t “Look” Like Anything

Zach Mortice

What Does Your Home Say About You?

Shane Reiner-Roth

Is Building Better Cities a Dream Within Reach?

Michael Webb

The Value of Unbuilt Buildings

George Kafka

Future-Proofing a Home Where Water Is a Focus and a Thread

Alexandra Lange

Modernist Town, U.S.A.

Ian Volner

Buildings That Grow from a Place

Anthony Paletta

What We Lose When a Historic Building Is Demolished

Owen Hatherley

We Need More Than Fewer, Better Things

Deb Chachra

An Ode to Garages

Charlie Weak

In Search of Domestic Kintsugi

Edwin Heathcote

The Perils of the Landscapes We Make

Karrie Jacobs

Using Simple Tools as a Radical Act of Independence

Jarrett Fuller

Why Can’t I Just Go Home?

Eva Hagberg

Why Did Our Homes Stop Evolving?

George Kafka

Spaces Where the Body Is a Vital Force

Tiffany Jow

Tracing the Agency of Women as Users and Experts of Architecture

Mimi Zeiger

Are You Sitting in a Non-Place?

Mzwakhe Ndlovu

At Home, Connecting in Place

Marianela D’Aprile

VALIE EXPORT’s Tactical Urbanism

Alissa Walker

What the “Whole Earth Catalog” Taught Me About Building Utopias

Anjulie Rao

How a Run-Down District in London Became a Model for Neighborhood Revitalization

Ellen Peirson

In Brooklyn, Housing That Defies the Status Quo

Gideon Fink Shapiro

That “Net-Zero” Home Is Probably Living a Lie

Fred A. Bernstein

The Virtue of Corporate Architecture Firms

Kate Wagner

How Infrastructure Shapes Us

Deb Chachra

The Defiance of Desire Lines

Jim Stephenson

This House Is Related to You and to Your Nonhuman Relatives

Sebastián López Cardozo

What’s the Point of the Plus Pool?

Ian Volner

The Extraordinary Link Between Aerobics and Architecture

Jarrett Fuller

Architecture That Promotes Healing and Fortifies Us for Action

Kathryn O’Rourke

How to Design for Experience

Diana Budds

The Meaty Objects at Marta

Jonathan Griffin

How Oliver Grabes Led Braun Back to Its Roots

Marianela D’Aprile

Can Adaptive Reuse Fuel Equitable Revitalization?

Clayton Page Aldern

What’s the Point of a Tiny Home?

Mimi Zeiger

A Book Where Torn-Paper Blobs Convey Big Ideas

Julie Lasky

The Architecture of Doing Nothing

Edwin Heathcote

What the “Liebes Look” Says About Dorothy Liebes

Debika Ray

Roy McMakin’s Overpowering Simplicity

Eva Hagberg

Minimalism’s Specific Objecthood, Interpreted by Designers of Today

Glenn Adamson

How Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake Navigate Transition

Siobhan Burke

The Future-Proofing Work of Design-Brand Archivists

Adrian Madlener

Can a Church Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis?

Alex Bozikovic

In Search of Healing, Helen Cammock Confronts the Past

Jesse Dorris

What Dead Malls, Office Parks, and Big-Box Stores Can Do for Housing

Ian Volner

A Righteous Way to Solve “Wicked” Problems

Susan Yelavich

Making a Mess, with a Higher Purpose

Andrew Russeth

How to Emerge from a Starchitect’s Shadow

Cynthia Rosenfeld

There Is No One-Size-Fits-All in Architecture

Marianela D’Aprile

How Time Shapes Amin Taha’s Unconventionally Handsome Buildings

George Kafka

Seeing and Being Seen in JEB’s Radical Archive of Lesbian Photography

Svetlana Kitto

In Built Environments, Planting Where It Matters Most

Karrie Jacobs

On the Home Front, a Latine Aesthetic’s Ordinary Exuberance

Anjulie Rao

For a Selfie (and Enlightenment), Make a Pilgrimage to Bridge No. 3

Alexandra Lange

The Building Materials of the Future Might Be Growing in Your Backyard

Marianna Janowicz

Moving Beyond the “Fetishisation of the Forest”

Edwin Heathcote

Is Craft Still Synonymous with the Hand?

Tiffany Jow

A Historian Debunks Myths About Lacemaking, On LaceTok and IRL

Julie Lasky

How AI Helps Architects Design, and Refine, Their Buildings

Ian Volner

Merging Computer and Loom, a Septuagenarian Artist Weaves Her View of the World

Francesca Perry

Words That Impede Architecture, According to Reinier de Graaf

Osman Can Yerebakan

Painting With Plaster, Monica Curiel Finds a Release

Andrew Russeth

Rules and Roles in Life, Love, and Architecture

Eva Hagberg

A Design Movement That Pushes Beyond Architecture’s Limitations

Tiffany Jow

Making Use of End Users’ Indispensable Wisdom

Tiffany Jow

Xiyadie’s Queer Cosmos

Xin Wang

How Stephen Burks “Future-Proofs” Craft

Francesca Perry

How Michael J. Love’s Subversive Tap Dancing Steps Forward

Jesse Dorris

The Day Architecture Stopped

Kate Wagner

Finding Healing and Transformation Through Good Black Art

Folasade Ologundudu

To Improve the Future of Public Housing, This Architecture Firm Looks to the Past

Ian Volner

The Overlooked Potential of Everyday Objects

Adrian Madlener

A Conversation About Generalists, Velocity, and the Source of Innovation

Tiffany Jow

The Radical Potential of “Prime Objects”

Glenn Adamson

Using a Fungi-Infused Paste, Blast Studio Turns Trash Into Treasure

Natalia Rachlin

The New Lessons Architect Steven Harris Learns from Driving Old Porsches

Jonathan Schultz