Łukasz Stanek Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

The UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio in 2023-24 fall semester is inviting you to a public talk

 

Łukasz Stanek:

Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

 

December 18, 2023

6–7:30 p.m. 

Auditorium of TCM UMPRUM

Mikulandská 134/5

 

Free Entry, in English

Lecture organized in the framework of UMPRUM Visiting Artist Studio 2023/24 “East-South: Transnational Exchanges between the Central and Eastern Europe and Africa.”

The project is funded by EU.

Łukasz Stanek  Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

Łukasz Stanek is Professor of Architectural History at Taubman College. Stanek authored 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). His edited volumes include 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). Before the University of Michigan, Stanek taught at the ETH Zurich, Harvard University GSD, and the University of Manchester. He was a fellow at 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 received his Master of Architecture from Kraków University of Technology, Master of Philosophy from the Jagiellonian University (Kraków) and his PhD from Delft University of Technology.