The new issue of Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy (Vol. 4, No. 2, 2026), the thematic issue EMPATHY, guest-edited by Stylianos Giamarelos and Nina Vollenbröker, has now been published.
Across seven articles, the issue addresses disability and embodied spatial experience, drawing and political violence, material practices, ecological relations, institutional space, histories of care and artificial intelligence. Across these subjects, the contributors consider relations with others, the distribution of power in design, and the ways knowledge of different experiences is produced and communicated.
The contributors are Natalia Pérez Liebergesell and Ann Heylighen; Melike Beşik and Bihter Almaç; Ela Egidy and Hélène Frichot; Nerea Amorós Elorduy; Nina Vollenbröker, Kerstin Sailer and Jos Boys; David Serlin; and Andri Gerber and Elena Gavagnin.
The issue also includes conversations with Nicolas Bourriaud, Eduardo Souto de Moura, and Susanne Schmetkamp. In the book review section, Jordan Whitewood-Neal reviews Wanda Katja Liebermann’s Architecture’s Disability Problem, and Michael Faciejew reviews David Gissen’s The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access.
The full issue is available on the journal’s website: Khōrein – EMPATHY, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2026)