Łukasz Stanek: Architektura globálního socialismu

The lecture is organized as part of the Atelier program with guest artist 2023/24 "East-South: International Exchanges between Central and Eastern Europe and Africa."
The discussion is moderated by Jana Ndiaye Beránková. The project is supported by the European Union. Free entry, the lecture is in English.

Łukasz Stanek is a professor of architectural history at Taubman College at the University of Michigan in the USA. Stanek is the author of publications including Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton University Press, 2020), Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2014) and Urban Revolution Now. Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Ashgate, 2014, with Ákos Moravánszky and Christian Schmid).
He has previously lectured at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Harvard University in the USA, and the University of Manchester in the UK. He has worked at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington DC), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), the Institute d’Urbanisme (Paris), and the University of Ghana at Legon (Accra). He completed his Master’s in architecture at the Kraków University of Technology in Poland. He holds a Master's degree in philosophy from Jagiellonian University (Kraków) and a PhD from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.