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
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?
As family plots divide in northern Vietnam, can architecture protect privacy without dismantling the everyday spaces that make mutual support possible?
The Nue Black Aesthetic sharpens a museum dilemma: can dedicated visibility for Black designers change collections, budgets and curatorial power?
White Arkitekter’s timber urbanism challenges concrete—but can forests bear the demand? The case for wood cities, and the limits they must confront.
Julia Lohmann’s kelp sculptures challenge human-centred design. But can a renewable material become reciprocal without limits on extraction?
The Met’s pivot from Galliano to everyday clothes challenges fashion’s blockbuster model. Can exhibition design give wearers real narrative power?
Oshinówò Studio’s Freetown Memorial extension honours the Carrier Corps. Can inclusion change imperial memory—or merely enlarge its frame?
