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Łukasz Stanek is Professor at A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. 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 most recent edited volume is The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives (Jovis Publishers, 2026). Previously Stanek taught at the Swiss Federal University of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland), and the University of Manchester (UK), and he held guest appointments at Harvard University (USA), and the University of Ghana at Legon in Accra (Ghana). He curated several exhibitions, including The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture (Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich, 2024). Together with Michael Gameli Dziwornu, he founded Office Southeast, an urban research collaborative based in Accra, Ghana. He is currently a NOMIS Senior Fellow (2026-27) at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, Switzerland.
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