NEW
YORK
ARCHITECTURE+ DESIGN
BOOK
CLUB
Join New York’s only architecture and design book club (that we know of!)
The New York Architecture + Design Book Club, organized by Head Hi and the design journal Untapped, is a lively public program and book subscription series that explores remarkable new titles in the field. The books’ authors, contributors and industry experts lead a discussion at each quarterly gathering, which seeks to build deeper connections between people, ideas, and the world in which we live.
HOW IT WORKS
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
UPCOMING EVENT
Join us on Saturday, July 25, 12-2pm!
Our next title for the New York Architecture + Design Book Club subscription and quarterly event series is Architecture Against Architecture by Reinier de Graaf (Verso).
Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow.
The book demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and insight, De Graaf lays out the future of the profession, challenging readers to question the fundamental assumptions of the discipline. How do we end the feudal veneration of starchitects? When will architects finally recognize that it is in their own best interest to unionize? Why aren't more practices collectively owned? Why do so many architects over sixty-seven refuse to retire? How do we stop buildings from being copy-righted? What will remain of architecture after AI? What can prevent iconic structures from being embroiled in money laundering? And the vital question: What projects should architects refuse on moral grounds?
The book was published by Verso in March 2026.
Questions about how the book club works? Email us at hello@headhi.net.
EVENT GUESTS
For the event on July 25, we are thrilled to be joined by Dutch architect and writer Reinier de Graaf (via Zoom). He is a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), where he leads projects in Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Reinier is the co-founder of OMA's think-tank AMO and Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor of Urban Design at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession, Architect, verb.: The New Language of Building and the novel The Masterplan. He lives in Amsterdam.
In conversation (live IRL at Head Hi) with De Graaf will be Lauren and Craig Sinclair. co-Directors of SINCLAIR COLLECTIVE. Lauren is an architect and an architecture critic whose work spans professional practice, cultural commentary, and the built environment. Lauren’s criticism reaches 40,000 followers and 1.5 million monthly views through her platform @industrythotleader. Craig is a spatial researcher and faculty at Syracuse University School of Architecture. His writing on design, architecture, and technology has been published in MIT’s Thresholds Journal, CLOG, and ARCADE. Craig’s research specializes in transforming insights from the hard sciences into spatial experience.
UNTAPPED BOOK REVIEW
Ahead of each event, Untapped publishes a review of the featured book, written by a leading design critic. The review of Architecture Against Architecture was written by Eva Hagberg, a Los Angeles based architectural historian, media strategist, and academic.
PAST NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN BOOK CLUB PICKS
2025-2026
Jasper Morrison, A Book of Things
Featured Guests: Nick Olney and Jonathan Olivares
Review by George Kafka
Bruno Munari: Design and Visual Communication
Featured Guests: Jeffrey Schnapp and Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Review by Jarret Fuller
Architecture Against Architecture, Reinier de Graaf
Featured Guests: Reinier de Graaf, Lauren Sinclair, and Craig Sinclair
Review by Eva Hagberg forthcoming
2024
Minerva Parker Nichols, In Search for a Forgotten Architect
Featured Guests: Margaret (Molly) Lester, William Whitaker, Heather Schumacher and Elizabeth Felicella
American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana
Hélène Binet
Archigram Ten
Featured Guests: Barry Wark, Winka Dubbeldam and Michael Young
2023
The Advanced School of Collective Feeling
Featured Guests: Nile Greenberg, Matthew Kennedy, and John Sorensen-Jolink
A Dark, A Light, A Bright The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
Featured Guests: Susan Brown, Alexa Griffith Winton and Juan Jofre Lora
Touch Wood: Material, Architecture Future
Featured Guests: Carla Ferrer, Thomas Hildebrand, Celina Martinez-Cañavate and Neil Pederson
Stephen Burks Shelter in Place
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

Head Hi is an organization dedicated to art and design specializing in publications and cultural programming with an espresso bar located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn by the Navy Yard. We feature a curated selection of publications from around the globe. Working with local and international artists, designers, publishers, community members and organizations in various fields, Head Hi is a space for exploration and interaction that hosts talks, book launches, art shows, music performances and other events.

Untapped is a design journal that looks back to look forward. Their 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.
www.untappedjournal.com
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