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
As heatwaves threaten the grid, passive survivability asks whether homes can remain safe, cool and affordable without electricity.
West Coast housing shortages are turning parks and greenbelts into battlegrounds between affordable shelter and ecological wellbeing.
Justin Blinder’s Citi Bike intervention slows rides in rent-burdened blocks. Is punitive mobility design protest—or public coercion?
The Balearic social housing model argues that beauty creates dignity and public life. But can quality survive budgets, maintenance and politics?
The White House ballroom fight turns preservation into a test of executive power, public memory and who gets to reshape America's symbolic architecture.
The cancelled John Galliano exhibition raises a harder question: can museums preserve difficult legacies without turning context into endorsement?
Freedom Ship revives the floating-city fantasy—and exposes the political, climate, and social stakes of architecture untethered from land.
Casa 144º and the new hillside house ask whether restraint is true luxury—or costly engineering made to look effortless.
A Himalayan glacier collapse exposes the limits of static resilience. Architecture must design for cascading floods, landslides and mass evacuation.
Architecture is leaving the object behind. Explore a future where terrain, vegetation and memory generate buildings as ecological stitching.
