Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy

To present Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy at the AA, Kenneth Frampton will be in conversation with editors Petar Bojanić and Snežana Vesnić.

Khōrein is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published biannually by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade.

The journal aims to transcend the boundary between architecture and philosophy and strives to deepen the dialogue between the two disciplines. Articles contribute to both an architectural vocabulary and broader theory by defining and problematising key concepts and protocols that straddle and traverse these fields of inquiry.

Petar Bojanić is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade, Serbia and Director of the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Rijeka, Croatia. Recent publications are In-Statuere. Figures of Institutional Building (Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2022), Provocatio. Vocativo Ius Rivoluzione (Milano – Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, 2021), Institutions in Action. The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World, (co-edited with T. Andina) (Berlin, Springer, 2020), and Violence and Messianism. Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the 20th Century (London – New York, Routledge, 2018). Bojanić is a founder and editor-in-chief of Khōrein.

Snežana Vesnić is an architect and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is currently working on the translation of her book Arhitektonski koncept [Architectural Concept] (2020) into English. In addition to her academic work, Vesnić is a practicing architect. She is a founding partner of the Belgrade-based architecture studio NeoArhitekti, the projects of which have received many awards, such as two nominations for the EU Mies Award (Textil Commercial Building for the year 2009 and Villa Pavlović for 2019). In 2023, Vesnić was a jury member of the EUmies Awards in the Young Talent category. She is a founder and editor-in-chief of Khōrein.

Kenneth Frampton is an architect, historian and critic. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He has taught at a number of leading institutions, including the Royal College of Art, ETH Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, EPFL in Lausanne and the Accademia di Architettura in Medrisio, and was Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. Frampton is the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary architecture. In addition to Modern Architecture: A Critical History, his publications include Studies in Tectonic Culture, Labour, Work and Architecture, and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form.