Amy Frearson

About

Amy is a journalist and editor specialising in architecture and design. She is editor-at-large for Dezeen and a regular contributor to Elle Decoration and the Financial Times. Her first book, All Together Now: The Co-living and Co-working Revolution, is published by RIBA Publishing. Amy has been writing about architecture and design professionally for over a decade. She partnered with interior designer Naomi Cleaver on the book, All Together Now: the co-living and co-working revolution, which explores how living and working spaces can be designed to facilitate collaboration and social interaction. Amy has been contributing to Dezeen, the world's biggest and most influential design website, since 2011. Her current role is editor-at-large, but she served as editor from 2016 to 2019. In 2017, she was highly commended in the specialist editor category at the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) Awards, which described Dezeen as ‘unstoppable’ under her editorship. Dezeen won digital editorial team of the year at the AOP Digital Publishing Awards the same year, while Amy was shortlisted for multimedia journalist of the year at the International Building Press Awards in 2018. Amy is a regular speaker at events and has sat on the jury for many prestigious industry awards. She works on a range of editorial commissions, across magazines, books, digital media and video. She was the editor of the exhibition catalogue for The Garden of Privatised Delights, the British Pavilion’s participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. Other editorial projects include hosting a programme of online talks for the Norwegian participation in the London Design Biennale 2021 and producing a series of articles for forward-thinking property brand Noiascape about the opportunities that co-living could bring to London. Before moving into journalism, Amy worked in architectural practice. She holds a masters in architectural history from The Bartlett and a degree in architecture from Kingston University. She lives and works in London as part of Beulah Road Studios.