"i-D" magazine considers "032c" to be "dedicated to the celebration of ideas," "Vogue Paris" has referred to it as a "revue ultra-pointue", and the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" has called the magazine "the Berlin magazine that propagates an aesthetic of brutal elegance".According to "The New York Times", "the magazine fuses art and architecture, literature, urban studies in ways that can make one forget how depressing a visit to a newsstand has become".