Eva Franch i Gilabert (Deltebre, 10 December 1978) is a Catalan architect, curator, critic and educator based in New York City who works in the fields of contemporary art, architecture, and public space.

[4] Aged 22, Franch had a three-month internship in a Rotterdam-based firm, working on public buildings, masterplanning and social housing, after which she became a full-time employee heading the competitions team.

[15] Franch, together with a curatorial and design team including Ana Miljacki, Ashley Schafer, Natasha Jen, Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Lars Müller, and architects Leong Leong among more than 300 collaborators, was selected by the US State Department[16] to represent the United States at the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale (2014) with the project OfficeUS,[17][18] an experiment for the making of new histories and global architecture practice.

At Storefront, she collaborated with hundreds of artists and architects including both prominent and emerging voices such as Vito Acconci, Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernandez-Pascual (Cooking Sections),[19] Matilde Cassani,[20] Amie Siegel,[21] Andres Jaque - Office for Political Innovation,[22] Agnieska Kurant, Lan Tuazon,[23] Gary Husbit,[24] Frida Escobedo,[25] Anna Puigjaner (MAIO)[26] and Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg (So-IL),[27] among many others.

Throughout her tenure, Franch expanded Storefont’s footprint in Kenmare Street in SoHo with two additional spaces for operations and the indexing and digitization[46] of the Storefront Archive.

Franch launched the Experimental Program, the Speculative Studies department as well as a set of changes to ignite cross-programme collaborations around issues of climate and diversity.

"[58] Her dismissal came despite support from academics who wrote an open letter talking of "systemic biases" against women and of sexism, and accusing the AA of using "the pandemic for anti-democratic purposes".

Contributors included art and architecture historians Hal Foster, Lucia Allais, Spyridon Papapetros, Alanna Heiss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Ines Weizman, among others.

Franch’s work has appeared in the form of articles and interviews in magazines, newspapers and publications including AD,[77] Architecture Record, Architectural Review, ArchDaily,[78] Arquine, Bauwelt, Bazar, Deezen, Domus,[79] Dwell, El Pais, La Vanguardia,[80] Metropolis, MOUSSE, Pin-UP, Rolling Stone, Surface Magazine, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times,[81] The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Observer,[82] among others.

[87] She received a special citation by the American Institute of Architects[88] in New York for her contribution to the field in 2018 and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Illustrious Alumni Award in 2019.