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
Johnston Marklee’s green-metal tower in Phoenix asks whether high-rise housing can feel civic, humane, and climate-aware.
The Woodward’s relaunch shows how restoration can become reinvention—and where historic character risks becoming luxury branding.
Beauty is trading aspiration for proof. Here’s how evidence, sourcing and claims are redefining premium branding.
How conch-shaped breathing devices turn pediatric care into an emotional landscape, reshaping fear management through design.
When emergency architecture moves fast, what dignity cannot be negotiated? A sharp look at humane temporary shelters and their ethics.
Compact homes are redefining luxury through light, courtyards, and sequence—can architecture make small feel expansive without cliché?
Bathrooms are evolving into engineered, ultra-precise interiors where performance, durability, and spatial intelligence matter as much as style.
Raw concrete, sacred symbolism, and brutalism’s uneasy bond with faith—exploring how monumentality can inspire awe or feel authoritarian.
How Japanese interiors turn timber into a modern system of warmth, craft, and spatial intelligence—without slipping into nostalgia.
How wellness hotels turn rooms into tools for self-optimization—and why that looks suspiciously like surveillance in design.
