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The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives, talk at the workshop Re-Mapping Interdependencies. Borders, Memories, and Actors in Postsocialist/ Postcolonial Spaces, Center for interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld (DE), July 16, 2026

Published by Comments Off on The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives, talk at the workshop Re-Mapping Interdependencies. Borders, Memories, and Actors in Postsocialist/ Postcolonial Spaces, Center for interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld (DE), July 16, 2026 <p></p>

The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives, invited lecture as part of the 30th Anniversary Lecture Series of SHERA (Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture), October 23, 2025 (Zoom).

Published by Comments Off on The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives, invited lecture as part of the 30th Anniversary Lecture Series of SHERA (Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture), October 23, 2025 (Zoom). <p></p>

From Africans to Ghanaians, from Europeans to Expatriates. Race and Architectural Labor in Ghana, 1951–66 in: Felipe Hernandez, Itohan Osayimwese, eds. Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture (London: Routledge, 2025), 247-60.

Published by Comments Off on From Africans to Ghanaians, from Europeans to Expatriates. Race and Architectural Labor in Ghana, 1951–66 in: Felipe Hernandez, Itohan Osayimwese, eds. Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture (London: Routledge, 2025), 247-60. <p>https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/From-Africans-to-Ghanaians-from-Europeans-to-Expatriates.-Race-and-Architectural-Labor-in-Ghana-1951–66_26_05_11_15_51_43.pdf</p>

Women Architects from Eastern Europe in Africa during the Global Cold War in: Lori A. Brown, Karen Burns eds., The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 (London: Bloomsbury, 2025).

Published by Comments Off on Women Architects from Eastern Europe in Africa during the Global Cold War in: Lori A. Brown, Karen Burns eds., The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 (London: Bloomsbury, 2025). <p>https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Stanek-Women-Architects-from-Eastern-Europe-in-Africaduring-the-Global-Cold-War.pdf</p>

Global Trajectories of Polish Architects in the Cold War, in: Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell and Michał Murawski eds., Anti-Atlas. Critical area studies from the East of the West (London: UCL Press, 2025), 301-7

Published by Comments Off on Global Trajectories of Polish Architects in the Cold War, in: Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell and Michał Murawski eds., Anti-Atlas. Critical area studies from the East of the West (London: UCL Press, 2025), 301-7 <p>https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Stanek-in-Anti-Atlas.pdf</p>

Artist Intervention: Asutsuare Rebound, Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism, 19:2 (2022), 147-15 (published Nov. 2024), with Michael Gameli Dziwornu, Eric Don-Arthur

Published by Comments Off on Artist Intervention: Asutsuare Rebound, Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism, 19:2 (2022), 147-15 (published Nov. 2024), with Michael Gameli Dziwornu, Eric Don-Arthur <p>https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Don-Arthur-Dziwornu-Stanek-in-FA_C.pdf</p>

New paper: Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry

Published by Comments Off on New paper: Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry <p>Comparative Studies in Society and History (2024), 1-34 Download This paper discusses competing visions of the decolonization of Ghana’s economy... <a class="view-article" href="https://lukaszstanek.net/new-paper-hegemony-by-adaptation-decolonizing-ghanas-construction-industry/">View Article</a></p>

New paper: Race, Time, and Architecture: Dilemmas of Africanization in Ghana, 1951-1966

Published by Comments Off on New paper: Race, Time, and Architecture: Dilemmas of Africanization in Ghana, 1951-1966 <p>Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83:2 (2024), 191-208. Download Go to JSAH This article discusses the Africanization of... <a class="view-article" href="https://lukaszstanek.net/race-time-architecture-dilemmas-of-africanization-in-ghana-1951-1966/">View Article</a></p>

Rereading Colonialism from Eastern Europe and Western Africa, or: What Architectural Historians Can Learn from Ghanaian Responses to the War in Ukraine, in: Kurg, A., Popescu, C., Bocharnikova, D., Gourinovitch, O., Graham, J., Stanek, L. & Lähteenmäki, M., Field Notes: Why We Need Eastern Europe?, Architectural Histories 12:1 (2024)

Published by Comments Off on Rereading Colonialism from Eastern Europe and Western Africa, or: What Architectural Historians Can Learn from Ghanaian Responses to the War in Ukraine, in: Kurg, A., Popescu, C., Bocharnikova, D., Gourinovitch, O., Graham, J., Stanek, L. & Lähteenmäki, M., Field Notes: Why We Need Eastern Europe?, Architectural Histories 12:1 (2024) <p>https://journal.eahn.org/article/id/10595/</p>

Architecture as Currency. State-Socialist Building Export to Iraq, conference The Social History of Money across the Eastern Bloc and the Global South in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Department of History, Cambridge (UK), June 27, 2024

Published by Comments Off on Architecture as Currency. State-Socialist Building Export to Iraq, conference The Social History of Money across the Eastern Bloc and the Global South in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Department of History, Cambridge (UK), June 27, 2024 <p></p>

Archives 1-3, in: Claire Lubell, Rafico Ruiz eds. Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Jap Sam Books, 2023), 14-103, with Ikem Stanley Okoye and Cole Roskam

Published by Comments Off on Archives 1-3, in: Claire Lubell, Rafico Ruiz eds. Fugitive Archives: A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Jap Sam Books, 2023), 14-103, with Ikem Stanley Okoye and Cole Roskam <p>https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/89565/fugitive-archives-a-sourcebook-for-centring-africa-in-histories-of-architecture</p>

Temporalities of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Infrastructure: Imaginations of Industrial Development in Asutsuare, Ghana, with Michael Gameli Dziwornu, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver CO (USA), April 24, 2023

Published by Comments Off on Temporalities of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Infrastructure: Imaginations of Industrial Development in Asutsuare, Ghana, with Michael Gameli Dziwornu, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver CO (USA), April 24, 2023 <p></p>

Accra’s International Trade Fair Embodies Ghana’s Complex Legacy of Pan-African Modernism, discussion with Ruth-Anne Richardson, Failed Architecture, January 27, 2021

Published by Comments Off on Accra’s International Trade Fair Embodies Ghana’s Complex Legacy of Pan-African Modernism, discussion with Ruth-Anne Richardson, Failed Architecture, January 27, 2021 <p>https://failedarchitecture.com/accras-international-trade-fair-embodies-ghanas-complex-legacy-of-pan-african-modernism/</p>

When Baghdad Was Like Warsaw: Comparison in the Cold War, in: Osman M., Abramson, D., Çelik Alexander, Z. (Aggregate) eds., Writing By Design: Evidence and Narrative in Architectural History (Pittsburgh PE: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), 162-76 and 310-13

Published by Comments Off on When Baghdad Was Like Warsaw: Comparison in the Cold War, in: Osman M., Abramson, D., Çelik Alexander, Z. (Aggregate) eds., Writing By Design: Evidence and Narrative in Architectural History (Pittsburgh PE: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), 162-76 and 310-13 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-When-Baghdad-was-like-Warsaw-copy-1.pdf</p>

Socialist Worldmaking: Architecture and Global Urbanization in the Cold War, in: Mark J., Kalinovsky, A., Marung, S. eds., Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2020), 166-86

Published by Comments Off on Socialist Worldmaking: Architecture and Global Urbanization in the Cold War, in: Mark J., Kalinovsky, A., Marung, S. eds., Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 2020), 166-86 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-in-Alternative_Globalizations.pdf</p>

When Accra Was Like Tashkent: Urban Comparison in the Cold War, keynote at the colloquium Sacred, Spectacular, Planned: Capital Cities in a Comparative Perspective, 1500–2000, Department of History, European University at St. Petersburg (RU, online), October 22, 2020

Published by Comments Off on When Accra Was Like Tashkent: Urban Comparison in the Cold War, keynote at the colloquium Sacred, Spectacular, Planned: Capital Cities in a Comparative Perspective, 1500–2000, Department of History, European University at St. Petersburg (RU, online), October 22, 2020 <p></p>

Architecture and Petrobarter. Romanian and East German Construction Export to Oil Producing Countries, 1970s-1980s, workshop Transnational Relations between Eastern Europe/USSR and the Middle East. New Perspectives on the Cold War Workshop, University of Geneva (CH), February 22, 2018

Published by Comments Off on Architecture and Petrobarter. Romanian and East German Construction Export to Oil Producing Countries, 1970s-1980s, workshop Transnational Relations between Eastern Europe/USSR and the Middle East. New Perspectives on the Cold War Workshop, University of Geneva (CH), February 22, 2018 <p></p>

An Image and Its Performance: Techno-Export from Socialist Poland, in: Moravánszky, A., Lange, T. eds., Re-Framing Identities: Architecture’s Turn to History, 1970–1990 (Birkhäuser, 2017), 59–71

Published by Comments Off on An Image and Its Performance: Techno-Export from Socialist Poland, in: Moravánszky, A., Lange, T. eds., Re-Framing Identities: Architecture’s Turn to History, 1970–1990 (Birkhäuser, 2017), 59–71 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EWC03_Stanek.pdf</p>

Socialist Internationalism and National Tradition in Post-Independence Nigerian Architecture, workshop Africa, Eastern Europe and the Dream of International Socialism: New Perspectives on the Global Cold War, Oxford University (UK), October 29, 2016

Published by Comments Off on Socialist Internationalism and National Tradition in Post-Independence Nigerian Architecture, workshop Africa, Eastern Europe and the Dream of International Socialism: New Perspectives on the Global Cold War, Oxford University (UK), October 29, 2016 <p></p>

Architects from Socialist Countries in Ghana (1957-1967): Modern Architecture and Mondialisation, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74:4 (2015), 416–42

Published by Comments Off on Architects from Socialist Countries in Ghana (1957-1967): Modern Architecture and Mondialisation, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74:4 (2015), 416–42 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/JSAH-2015-Stanek-Architects_from_Socialist_Countries_in_Ghana-corr.pdf</p>

Mobilities of Architecture between Eastern Europe and the Gulf, 1970s–1990s, keynote at the conference Accommodations: Positive strategies for documenting, conserving and re-inhabiting ‘outmoded’ spaces, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York (USA), October 24, 2015

Published by Comments Off on Mobilities of Architecture between Eastern Europe and the Gulf, 1970s–1990s, keynote at the conference Accommodations: Positive strategies for documenting, conserving and re-inhabiting ‘outmoded’ spaces, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York (USA), October 24, 2015 <p></p>

Tropical Modernism and Socialist Internationalism: The Case of Ghana National Construction Corporation (1960–66), during the conference Alternative Encounters: The “Second World” and the “Global South” 1945–1991, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena (D), November 3, 2015

Published by Comments Off on Tropical Modernism and Socialist Internationalism: The Case of Ghana National Construction Corporation (1960–66), during the conference Alternative Encounters: The “Second World” and the “Global South” 1945–1991, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena (D), November 3, 2015 <p></p>

Postmodernism Is Almost All Right. Polish Architecture After Socialist Globalization, keynote at the conference Socialist and Post-socialist Urbanizations: Architecture, Land and Property Rights, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn (EST), May 10, 2014

Published by Comments Off on Postmodernism Is Almost All Right. Polish Architecture After Socialist Globalization, keynote at the conference Socialist and Post-socialist Urbanizations: Architecture, Land and Property Rights, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn (EST), May 10, 2014 <p></p>

The Gift of Labor in Socialist Nowa Huta, Review article of Katherine Lebow’s Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56, Second World Urbanity (2014)

Published by Comments Off on The Gift of Labor in Socialist Nowa Huta, Review article of Katherine Lebow’s Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56, Second World Urbanity (2014) <p>https://www.secondworldurbanity.org/second-world-urbanity-2/the-gift-of-labor-in-stalinist-nowa-huta/</p>

Complete Urbanization Game: From CIAM to Corel Draw, in: Wieder A., Zeyfang F. eds., Open Form. Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar Hansen (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014), 156–9

Published by Comments Off on Complete Urbanization Game: From CIAM to Corel Draw, in: Wieder A., Zeyfang F. eds., Open Form. Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar Hansen (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014), 156–9 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Complete-Urbanization-Game-hi-res.pdf</p>

Architectural Project and the Agency of Representation: The Case of Nowa Huta, Poland, in: Moravánszky, A., Schmid, C., Stanek, Ł. eds., Urban Revolution Now. Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), 265–81

Published by Comments Off on Architectural Project and the Agency of Representation: The Case of Nowa Huta, Poland, in: Moravánszky, A., Schmid, C., Stanek, Ł. eds., Urban Revolution Now. Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), 265–81 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Urban_Revolution_Now_Henri_Lefebvre_in_Social_Rese._-_13_Architectural_Project_and_the_Agency_of_Representation_The_Case_of_.pdf</p>

Theory, not Method—Thinking with Lefebvre, with Ákos Moravánszky and Christian Schmid, in: Moravánszky, A., Schmid, C., Stanek, Ł. eds. Urban Revolution Now. Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), 1–24

Published by Comments Off on Theory, not Method—Thinking with Lefebvre, with Ákos Moravánszky and Christian Schmid, in: Moravánszky, A., Schmid, C., Stanek, Ł. eds. Urban Revolution Now. Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), 1–24 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/3.3-Urban_Revolution_Now_Henri_Lefebvre_in_Social_Rese._-_Introduction_Theory_Not_Method_–_Thinking_with_Lefebvre_.pdf</p>

Who Needs “Needs”? French Post-War Housing and its Critics, in: Avermaete, T., Swenarton, M., van den Heuvel, D. eds., Architecture and the Welfare State (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), 112–30

Published by Comments Off on Who Needs “Needs”? French Post-War Housing and its Critics, in: Avermaete, T., Swenarton, M., van den Heuvel, D. eds., Architecture and the Welfare State (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), 112–30 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Who-Needs-Needs.pdf</p>

Oskar and Zofia Hansen: Me, You, Us and the State. in: Stanek, Ł. ed., Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art/ University of Chicago Press, 2014), 201–41

Published by Comments Off on Oskar and Zofia Hansen: Me, You, Us and the State. in: Stanek, Ł. ed., Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art/ University of Chicago Press, 2014), 201–41 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Oskar-and-Zofia-Hansen-Me-You-Us-and-the-State.pdf</p>

Team 10 East and Several Other Useful Fictions, with Dirk van den Heuvel, in: Stanek, Ł. ed., Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art/ University of Chicago Press, 2014), 10–33

Published by Comments Off on Team 10 East and Several Other Useful Fictions, with Dirk van den Heuvel, in: Stanek, Ł. ed., Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art/ University of Chicago Press, 2014), 10–33 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-van-den-Heuvel-Team-10-East-and-Several-Other-Useful-Fictions.pdf</p>

A Manuscript Found in Saragossa: Toward an Architecture, introduction to Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment by Henri Lefebvre, Stanek Ł. ed., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2014), xi–lxi and 155–71

Published by Comments Off on A Manuscript Found in Saragossa: Toward an Architecture, introduction to Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment by Henri Lefebvre, Stanek Ł. ed., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2014), xi–lxi and 155–71 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-A-Manuscript-Found-in-Saragossa.pdf</p>

Biopolitics of Scale: Architecture, Urbanism, the Welfare State and After, in: Wallenstein, S.-O., Nilsson, J. eds., The Politics of Life—Michel Foucault and the Biopolitics of Modernity (Stockholm: Iaspis, 2013), 106–20

Published by Comments Off on Biopolitics of Scale: Architecture, Urbanism, the Welfare State and After, in: Wallenstein, S.-O., Nilsson, J. eds., The Politics of Life—Michel Foucault and the Biopolitics of Modernity (Stockholm: Iaspis, 2013), 106–20 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Biopolitics-of-Scale.pdf</p>

Architecture As a Pedagogical Object: What to Preserve of the Przyczółek Grochowski Housing Estate by Oskar & Zofia Hansen in Warsaw?, Architektúra & Urbanizmus 3–4 (2012), 2–21, with Aleksandra Kędziorek

Published by Comments Off on Architecture As a Pedagogical Object: What to Preserve of the Przyczółek Grochowski Housing Estate by Oskar & Zofia Hansen in Warsaw?, Architektúra & Urbanizmus 3–4 (2012), 2–21, with Aleksandra Kędziorek <p>https://www.architektura-urbanizmus.sk/2021/10/28/architecture-as-a-pedagogical-object-what-to-preserve-of-the-przyczolek-grochowski-housing-estate-by-oskar-zofia-hansen-in-warsaw/ </p>

Die Produktion des städtischen Raums durch massenmediale Erzählpraktiken: Der Fall Nowa Huta, in: Reif, H., Bernhardt, C. eds., Sozialistische Städte zwischen Herrschaft und Selbstbehauptung, Kommunalpolitik, Stadtplanung und Alltag in der DDR (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009), 275–98

Published by Comments Off on Die Produktion des städtischen Raums durch massenmediale Erzählpraktiken: Der Fall Nowa Huta, in: Reif, H., Bernhardt, C. eds., Sozialistische Städte zwischen Herrschaft und Selbstbehauptung, Kommunalpolitik, Stadtplanung und Alltag in der DDR (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009), 275–98 <p></p>

Space as Concrete Abstraction: Hegel, Marx, and Modern Urbanism in Henri Lefebvre, in: Kipfer, S., et al eds., Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and Radical Politics (London: Routledge, 2008), 62–79

Published by Comments Off on Space as Concrete Abstraction: Hegel, Marx, and Modern Urbanism in Henri Lefebvre, in: Kipfer, S., et al eds., Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and Radical Politics (London: Routledge, 2008), 62–79 <p>http://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek_Concrete-Abstraction.pdf</p>