Mainifesto — Architecture, Design & AI Perspectives

Independent critical perspectives on architecture, interiors, product design and technology, shaped by human editorial direction and AI-assisted publishing.

Editorial photograph of a staged research session in a Florence perfumery archive, connecting historic apothecary culture.

Formafantasma joins Santa Maria Novella. Can critical design research change luxury products, or will hidden histories become premium marketing?

Editorial photograph of a staged information-design display in a windowed ground-floor gallery in Midtown Manhattan, New.

MoMA’s Full Disclosure puts AI-generated memories inside information design. Can designers preserve emotional meaning without manufacturing evidence?

Editorial photograph of a contemporary brick boarding courtyard in Winchester, Hampshire, framed by gabled residential buildings.

Stanton Williams brings girls’ boarding houses into Winchester’s historic fabric. But does architectural belonging deliver equality—or preserve old rules?

Editorial photograph of an architecture teaching studio exploring Antoni Gaudí’s hanging-model methods alongside AI design workflows..

An AI course and competition developed with the Antoni Gaudí Foundation raises a hard question: should architectural training reward images or buildable logic?

Illustrative editorial photograph in Jiashan, Zhejiang, China: a long raised pedestrian walkway recedes across a narrow.

Dayun Landison Manor’s 360-metre walkway deserves scrutiny beyond its form: what happened to the village, its residents and access to the land?

Editorial photograph of a commuter paused beside a railway station ticket machine at dusk, holding.

Meadow’s minimalist phone challenges endless scrolling. But banking, tickets and authentication expose who really gets to decide which apps are essential.

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