Amy Frearson is an architecture and design journalist working across magazines, books, digital media and live events. She is editor-at-large for Dezeen and a contributor to titles including Elle Decoration and the Financial Times. She is the founder of Curated Maps, a platform offering guides to design weeks around the world, and she regularly hosts events for design organisations and brands such as Vitra, Fritz Hansen and Tarkett. She is the co-author of All Together Now: The Co-living and Co-working Revolution, published by the RIBA, and she edited the exhibition catalogue for The Garden of Privatised Delights, the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. Most recently, she sat on the curatorial panel for the 2025 edition of the London Festival of Architecture.
Before moving into journalism, Amy spent five years in architectural practice. She holds a masters in architectural history from The Bartlett and a degree in architecture from Kingston University. She joined Dezeen, the world's biggest design website, in 2011 and held the role of editor from 2016 to 2019. In 2017, she was highly commended in the specialist editor category at the British Society of Magazine Editors 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.