Francesc Gasch
Founder & Editor, Mainifesto
Founder and Editor of Mainifesto. Barcelona-based designer writing about architecture, design, technology and culture, with responsibility for the publication’s editorial direction and standards.
Articles by Francesc Gasch
Why enclosed courtyards are returning as a smart domestic response to heat, density, privacy, and microclimate.
Xintiandi Dongtaili shows how Shanghai malls now absorb street life, civic memory, and the politics of public culture.
A Belgian artist’s house becomes a layered retro-futurist interior, mixing Bauhaus colour, midcentury style and contemporary intervention.
Brick, earth, cork, timber and wood-based structures are reshaping low-carbon design—and reigniting the fight over vernacular authenticity.
Mexico City's Colima 162 uses recycled copper to question whether luxury can feel less extractive—or just better branded.
Copenhagen’s floating community space raises a bigger question: can amphibious architecture become everyday civic infrastructure?
As homes become ecosystems of rooms, gardens, and rituals, design is judged by choreography—not just efficient floor plans.
If arts participation slows aging, culture may be infrastructure, not luxury. Can cities justify it through health policy?
From oligarch mansions to storybook estates, castle imagery turns wealth into romance just as inequality comes under fire.
Hunstanton School’s renewal asks how Brutalist landmarks can evolve without betraying their authorship, budgets or safeguarding needs.
