About: is a global multimedia platform entirely dedicated to architecture. Composed of a bookazine, website, social channels, and an events program, it places community at the center of the system with the scope of creating an international network

Focus on

An extension of the magazine’s editorial vision, encompassing essays, projects, elements, companies, and critical insights, explored through a cross-scale lens on architecture and the built environment


The Brumadinho Memorial: a wound in the earth
Projects
The Brumadinho Memorial: a wound in the earth Francesco Perrotta-Bosch
In Minas Gerais, Gustavo Penna creates a 230 m incision in the ground: a path to ensure the 2019 tragedy is never forgotten
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Fast / Aluminum and outdoor
Companies
Fast / Aluminum and outdoorAbout: x Fast / Marco Valenti
Outdoor furnishings from Fast combine metalworking tradition and craftsmanship with an open design approach grounded in modularity, customization, and compositional freedom
Magazines as design practices — then and now
Essays
Magazines as design practices — then and nowAlessandro Valenti, Giulia Ricci
Reflections following the Reframing Culture public program, curated by About: in collaboration with Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Centre Pompidou 2030: toward a new transformability
Projects
Centre Pompidou 2030: toward a new transformabilityAmedeo Legnani
Moreau Kusunoki’s renovation enhances the transformable identity of the high-tech icon through new thresholds, light, and urban continuity
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Now

News and signals from the present. Now captures how architecture is being thought, made and discussed today, through exhibitions, interviews and stories that follow emerging practices and cultural shifts.


“Rethinking obsolete typologies”: Modernism, today
Reviews
“Rethinking obsolete typologies”: Modernism, todayOscar Peña
Nine 20th-century building types and the challenge of imagining their afterlives: between conservation, cultural shifts, and economic limits
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Two guests at the upcoming Reframing Culture talk
Events
Two guests at the upcoming Reframing Culture talkCiro Marco Musella
On February 16, Formafantasma and Izaskun Chinchilla join Fondazione Querini Stampalia and About: for a dialogue on exhibitions and knowledge
“American modern: architecture; community; Columbus, Indiana”
Reviews
“American modern: architecture; community; Columbus, Indiana”Daniele Rossi
An urban history where modern architecture becomes public infrastructure through a system that makes quality the rule, not the exception
“IN-PLAY. Design for sport”: 100 objects, 100 stories
Reviews
“IN-PLAY. Design for sport”: 100 objects, 100 storiesCiro Marco Musella
At ADI Design Museum, Davide Fabio Colaci and Giulia Novati curate an exhibition where objects and stories intertwine to explore the cultural meaning of sport
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