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
Air-conditioning is now a climate, health and justice battleground as cities overheat and comfort becomes infrastructure.
The kitchen is becoming architectural infrastructure: programmable, social, and designed as a domestic system rather than a single room.
Parametric insurance, climate risk, and AI are turning homes into continuously priced assets—and reshaping who can afford resilience.
Shenzhen Mingwan School points to a new campus model: education, transit, sport, and community life fused into one urban operating system.
Heatwaves are forcing offices to rethink cooling as architecture, economics, and carbon collide. Can productivity stay humane without hotter cities?
Toronto’s CIBC Square turns office architecture into public landscape—praised as civic generosity, critiqued as corporate alibi.
Melbourne’s Shand Road tests whether repeatable infill can deliver affordable, design-led housing without flattening architectural quality.
Meta’s Kylie Jenner AI glasses blur fashion and surveillance, turning the face into a new battleground of desirability and control.
Milano Centrale’s makeover reveals the promise and danger of turning monumental infrastructure into polished public space.
Intergenerational co-living promises care and connection—but who benefits when housing becomes lifestyle branding?
