Join the Italian studio Formafantasma and Untapped for drinks and conversation on the occasion of the studio’s first United States gallery exhibition, “Formation,” at Friedman Benda in New York.

5:00 PM: Walk-through of “Formation,” led by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma
515 West 26th Street

6:00 PM: Conversation led by Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow; reception to follow
508 West 26th Street, #7A (across the street from the gallery)

Casa Cork, a living laboratory that explored cork’s overlooked potential for material innovation, craft, and a circular economy, made its debut at Milan Design Week 2025. Created by David Rockwell and the nonprofit Cork Collective, the installation featured various activations to bring its ideas to life. This included the Casa Cork Salon Series, curated and led by Untapped, which explored topics specific and adjacent to cork so as to demonstrate its wide-ranging significance. Speakers included architects David Rockwell and Suchi Reddy, designers Tom Dixon and Yves Béhar, and curator and writer Deyan Sudjic, who spoke with Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow. (Photos: David Edwin Zanardi and Ed Reeve)

The eighth New York Architecture + Design Book Club, co-organized by the Brooklyn bookstore Head Hi and Untapped, focused on Archigram 10 (Circa Books). Architects and book contributors Barry Wark and Winka Dubbeldam spoke with architect Michael Young about all things Archigram. (Photos: Rebecca Smeyne)

In The Residence, an immersive domestic environment and shoppable design gallery designed by General Assembly and housed in one of 144 Vanderbilt’s model units, Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow, led a conversation with developer Tankhouse and architecture firm SO–IL, for a conversation about reimagining urban life through architecture and design. (Photos: William Jess Laird)

The seventh New York Architecture + Design Book Club, co-organized by the Brooklyn bookstore Head Hi and Untapped, focused on Hélène Binet (Lund Humphries). The monograph’s co-author Martino Stierli, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, talked about the title with ceramist Danny Kaplan. (Photos: Argenis Apolinario)

American Studio Craft trailblazers Wendy Maruyama and Tom Loeser shared their stories, joy, and wisdom in a talk led by Tiffany Jow, editor-in-chief of Untapped. The artists were in town to celebrate the launch of “Colorama,” a new exhibition at Superhouse that was on view through January 11. The conversation expanded on a story about Maruyama and Loeser’s views on the role of handcrafted objects in an increasingly digital world, featured in Untapped’s Print Edition 002. (Photos: Rebecca Smeyne)

Print Edition 002 of Untapped made a grand entrance—on newsstands, online, and at the New York gallery and print studio A83, which is featured in the publication. Hundreds of guests took in A83’s current exhibition, “Architectural Drawing III,” and a spellbinding, site-specific performance by Roderick George, Nicholas Ryan Gant, and Nouhoum Koita. (Photos: Rebecca Smeyne)

For Collectible’s first New York iteration, Untapped conceptualized and led a conversation about harnessing nature and technology to shape the future of design with architect Winka Dubbeldam, founder and partner of Archi-Tectonics, and artist Clement Valla, dean of experimental and foundation studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. 

The sixth New York Architecture + Design Book Club, co-organized by the Brooklyn bookstore Head Hi and Untapped, explored American Modernism: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana (Phaidon). The book’s author, Matt Shaw, and designer, Alex Lin, discussed putting the book together with landscape architect Sara Zewde. (Photos: Argenis Apolinario)

Untapped conceptualized and led a lively discussion about the key ideas shaping Bay Area design. Panelists included furniture designer Kate Greenberg, interior and furniture designer Michael Hilal, architect Rudabeh Pakravan of Sidell Pakravan, and Homan Rajai of Studio Ahead. (Photos: Alex Samuels)

For the second iteration of The Crossroads, an American design exhibition created by Rockwell Group and located at the heart of ICFF, Untapped defined, organized, and led conversations with the show’s participants each day of the fair. The conversations, focused on sustainability in practice and spirit, included Lichen co-founder Jared Blake, Colony founder Jean Lin, Office of Tangible Space co-founder Michael Yarinsky, and designers Daniel Michalik and Sahra Jajarmikhayat, among others. (Photo: Alice Gao)

Before the opening of Google’s 2024 Milan Design Week installation, “Making Sense of Color,” Untapped developed and led a talk and VIP tour of the space with Ivy Ross, Google’s VP of Design, UX, and Research for Hardware Products, who organized the exhibition in collaboration with the arts and research lab Chromasonic. (Photo: Edoardo Delille and Giulia Piermartiri)

Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect (Yale University Press) explores the life and work of the first female architect to run her own practice in the United States. The book was the pick for our spring book club, which featured four of the book’s contributors—Margaret (Molly) Lester, William Whitaker, Heather Schumacher of UPenn’s Weitzman School of Design, and architectural photographer Elizabeth Felicella—in conversation with interior designer Loren Dayle of studio LOVEISENOUGH. (Photos: Argenis Apolinario)

Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow, spoke to students at New York University about the value of criticism in architecture, art, and design.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, Fritz Hansen gathered a group of New York–based female thought leaders and designers at the new wine bar With Others. To kick off the evening, Fritz Hansen’s creative design director, Marie-Louise Høstbo, spoke with Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow, about her experience in the design industry. (Photo: Adele Makulova)

Hundreds turned out at the National Academy of Design to hear artists Torkwase Dyson and Sarah Oppenheimer talk about memory, time, boundaries, and more during a conversation led by Untapped. The discussion marked the one-year anniversary of the journal and the first in a series of public programs for “Sites of Impermanence,” the Academy’s current exhibition of work by its 2023 Class of National Academicians: Dyson and Oppenheimer, as well as Alica Adams, Sanford Biggers, Willie Cole, Richard Gluckman, Carlos Jiménez, and Mel Kendrick. (Photos: Rebecca Smeyne)

Nile Greenberg and Matthew Kennedy, authors of the book The Advanced School of Collective Feeling (Park Books), spoke with John Sorensen-Jolink of the design studio Coil + Drift about putting the publication together. (Photos: Christopher Garcia Valle)

Untapped launched its inaugural print edition at the Los Angeles gallery Marta. Guests took in a singular performance by thereminist Armen Ra, and Wentrcek / Zebulon’s exhibition “No Life.” (Photos: Owen Kolasinski)

Expanding on an exhibition of the same name at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan, the book A Dark, A Bright, A Light: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes (Yale University Press) illuminates the designer’s trailblazing legacy. Authors and exhibition co-curators Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton spoke with architect Juan Jofre Lora about the role of textiles in architecture and the “Liebes Look.”

At 2023’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair, an exhibition called “The Crossroads” immersed visitors in two icons of Americana—the home and the great outdoors—filled with objects made by designers working around the country. Created by architect David Rockwell, Rockwell Group, and writer and curator Pei-Ru Keh, the show served as the fair’s centerpiece and offered a snapshot of American design today. Inside the presentation each day, the space was activated by Dialogues at The Crossroads, a lively informal discussion led by Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow, about the primary contexts from which the works on view arise.

Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow, and the New York Review of Architecture’s publisher, Nicolas Kemper, spoke with writer and editorial consultant Pierre Alexandre de Looz about what it takes to launch a publication. The conversation was part of How-To: Nail a Hammer, the School of Visual Arts’s D-Crit of 2023’s Graduate Thesis Symposium.

Is craft still synonymous with the hand? Sculptor Misha Kahn, weaver Salem van der Swaagh, and Ezra Ardolino, founder of the digital-fabrication company Timbur, discussed the question with Untapped’s editor-in-chief, Tiffany Jow, at Vitra’s Madison Avenue space as part of its monthly Salon Series.

The first New York Architecture + Design Book Club focused on the book Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place (Yale University Press). Author and designer Stephen Burks and artist Christian Nyampeta led a fascinating and fun discussion. (Photos: Christopher Garcia Valle)

Untapped made its debut with friends new and old, who took in an unforgettable site-specific performance by the singular Michael J. Love. (Photos: Rebecca Smeyne)