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

Our stories identify 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.

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.

Our print edition, featuring a mix of print-first and existing stories and released annually, is available on newsstands and can be purchased on our Shop page. Our website publishes new stories on a weekly basis, which can be accessed alongside our archive for free on our Content Map.

Our Knowledge Map is an interactive trove of insights about making our living spaces better.

Launched in May 2025, this tool organizes Key Ideas from every Untapped article and offers authoritative references for further reading around each one. Researched by our team, these sources are not meant to be comprehensive, but to provide a solid starting point for better understanding a given idea. If you have a suggestion for an important source we could consider adding, let us know.

Why did we make the Knowledge Map? There’s a wealth of information about improving the built environment out there—but it’s often lost in the drive to make something new, hard to find, or explained in ways that don’t make sense.

We’re sifting through the slop, identifying Key Ideas and collecting them in one place, so readers can see the connections between them and dive deeper into topics of interest.

The Knowledge Map is another view into, and an expansion of, our incisive reporting. Consider it a useful, distinct resource for spurring deep and different ways of thinking about improving domestic space.

Making Space is a symposium that explores the nuances of home: how we create it, what gives it meaning, and why it matters. Organized by Untapped and taking place in cities around the world—beginning with Los Angeles, in late 2025—the program will feature short presentations by leading minds on a given theme. Transcripts of the presentations will be published on the Making Space microsite, alongside narratives from other voices offering additional takes on the symposium theme throughout the year.

Launched in February 2023, the quarterly New York Architecture + Design Book Club, which Untapped organizes with the Brooklyn bookstore Head Hi, is a lively program series where experts, authors, and readers can exchange ideas and build connections with each other. Untapped publishes a review of the club’s featured book ahead of each meeting.

We collaborate with like-minded entities on a range of programs and initiatives. If you’re interested in partnering with us, drop us a line.