Mainifesto — Architecture, Design & AI Perspectives
Independent critical perspectives on architecture, interiors, product design and technology, shaped by human editorial direction and AI-assisted publishing.
Chartier-Corbasson’s Paris public toilets raise a harder design question: can people find, reach and rely on an underground essential?
CurifyLabs’ PharmaPrinter Aurum raises a design question: can automated compounding reduce repetitive work without weakening pharmacists’ judgement?
Mori makes robot companionship look like ordinary furniture. Should domestic robots invite attachment—or make their simulated affection impossible to miss?
New York’s tenements offer lessons in compact living and urban density. But affordability must never excuse overcrowding, darkness or unsafe homes.
Fondazione Prada’s Global Antiquity challenges bounded histories. But can exhibition design reveal exchange without disguising appropriation and unequal power?
Amaravati’s monumental ambitions meet villages, farms and the Krishna River. Can these inherited networks shape the capital rather than disappear beneath it?
