Łukasz Stanek: Writings

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Stanek-in-Anti-Atlas.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Don-Arthur-Dziwornu-Stanek-in-FA_C.pdf

Land Imaginaries, e-flux Architecture, March 2024 (with Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh)

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/the-gift/589574/land-imaginaries/

The Architectural Gift: Łukasz Stanek in conversation with Frances Richard, Places Journal, April 2024

https://placesjournal.org/article/the-architectural-gift/

Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry, Comparative Studies in Society and History (2024), 1-34

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000185

Race, Time, and Architecture: Dilemmas of Africanization in Ghana, 1951-1966, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83:2 (2024), 191-208

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/JSAH8302_04_Stanek.pdf

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)

https://journal.eahn.org/article/id/10595/

The Architectural Gift: Kumasi, Islamabad, Detroit, Places Journal, April 2024, with Sarah K. Cheema and Anya Sirota

https://placesjournal.org/article/the-architectural-gift-kumasi-islamabad-detroit/

The Gift (Editorial), e-flux Architecture, February 27, 2024, with Damjan Kokalevski and Andres Lepik

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/the-gift/592070/editorial/

1980 in Parallax: Zbigniew Dmochowski in Nigeria, Charles Jencks Foundation online, 2023

https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/1980-in-parallax-zbigniew-dmochowski-in-nigeria#6fe6ec0faea7

Socialist Worldmaking, in: Vilenica A., ed. Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: A Lexicon of Reorientation (Novi Sad: New Media Center, 2023), 124-31

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-in-Decoloniality-in-Eastern-Europe_A-Lexicon-of-Reorientation.pdf

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

https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/89565/fugitive-archives-a-sourcebook-for-centring-africa-in-histories-of-architecture

Post-colonial Education in Kumasi, Architectural Review 9 (2022), 88-91

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/post-colonial-education-in-kumasi

Colonialism and the War in Ukraine, Africa Is a Country, November 29, 2022

https://africasacountry.com/2022/11/why-africa-needs-eastern-europe

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

https://failedarchitecture.com/accras-international-trade-fair-embodies-ghanas-complex-legacy-of-pan-african-modernism/

Tracing the Marine Drive, Accra, Canadian Centre for Architecture, February 24, 2021

https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/77853/tracing-the-marine-drive-accra

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-When-Baghdad-was-like-Warsaw-copy-1.pdf

Socialist Worldmaking: The Political Economy of Urban Comparison in the Cold War, Urban Studies 59:8 (2021), 1575-96

https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211050178

Buildings for Dollars and Oil: East German and Romanian Construction Companies in Cold War Iraq, Contemporary European History 30:4 (2021), 544-61

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000333

Integrate, Adapt, Collaborate: Comecon Architecture in Socialist Mongolia, ABE Journal 19 (2021), with Nikolay Erofeev

https://journals.openedition.org/abe/12604

Looking Elsewhere: Weak Actors and Architecture on the Move in Global Socialism, Interview with Zoltán Ginelli, Left East, November 11, 2020

https://lefteast.org/global-socialism-lukasz-stanek-middle-east-europe/

The Power of ‘Weak Actors’ and Decolonizing Socialist Architectural Histories after 1989, Interview with Zoltán Ginelli, Left East, November 23, 2020

https://lefteast.org/part-2-the-power-of-weak-actors-and-decolonizing-socialist-architectural-histories-after-1989/

Gift, Credit, Barter: Architectural Mobilities in Global Socialism, e-flux Architecture, July 8, 2020

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/housing/337850/gift-credit-barter-architectural-mobilities-in-global-socialism/

The Cold War New and Old: Architectural Exchanges Beyond the West, History News Network, February 9, 2020

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-cold-war-new-and-old-architectural-exchanges-b

Interstitial EP027: Architecture in Global Socialism, podcast with David Huber, March 17, 2020

https://www.librarystack.org/interstitial-ep027-architecture-in-global-socialism/

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-in-Alternative_Globalizations.pdf

Paper Cybernetics. Notes on Comecon’s Dictionary of Civil Engineering in Twelve Languages (1979), Pidgin. Princeton University School of Architecture 25 (2019), 80-90

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek_Lukasz_Pidgin_26_final-1.pdf

Mario Gaviria y la arquitectura del placer, Encrucijadas—Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales 15 (2018), 32-4

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7112719

Follow the Image, in: P. Bujas et al eds., Lifting the Curtain. Central European Architectural Networks, Liège, Editions Fourre-Tout (2018), 208-17

The Master Plans of Baghdad: Notes on GIS-Based Spatial History, Jadaliyya, May 17, 2017

https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/34289

Architekturtransfer im Kalten Krieg. Der Beitrag der sozialistischen Länder zu den globalen Urbanisierungsprozessen, Arch+ 230 (2017), 154-61

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Arch-1-1.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EWC03_Stanek.pdf

Collective Luxury, The Journal of Architecture 22:3 (2017), 478-87

https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2017.1307871

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/JSAH-2015-Stanek-Architects_from_Socialist_Countries_in_Ghana-corr.pdf

La pensée marxiste et la ville by Henri Lefebvre, The Journal of Architecture 20:3 (2015), 561–65

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/La-pens-e-marxiste-et-la-ville.pdf

Mobilities of Architecture in the Global Cold War: From Socialist Poland to Kuwait and Back, International Journal of Islamic Architecture 4:2 (2015), 365–98

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/47043/1/Sample_paper.pdf

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)

https://www.secondworldurbanity.org/second-world-urbanity-2/the-gift-of-labor-in-stalinist-nowa-huta/

Socialist Networks and the Internationalization of Building Culture after 1945, ABE Journal 6 (2014)

https://journals.openedition.org/abe/1266

Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment,’ Artforum 4 (2014), 232–7

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Artforum-Stanek-Lefebvre-for-print.pdf

Henri Lefebvre, For and Against the “User”, in: Cupers, K. ed., Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture (London: Routledge, 2013), 139–52

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Henri-Lefebvre_-for-and-against-the-user_24_10_11_19_10_31.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Complete-Urbanization-Game-hi-res.pdf

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

https://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

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

https://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

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Who-Needs-Needs.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Oskar-and-Zofia-Hansen-Me-You-Us-and-the-State.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-van-den-Heuvel-Team-10-East-and-Several-Other-Useful-Fictions.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-A-Manuscript-Found-in-Saragossa.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Biopolitics-of-Scale.pdf

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

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/

Second World’s Architecture and Planning in the Third World, The Journal of Architecture 17:3 (2012), 299–307

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Introduction_the_Second_Worlds_architect.pdf

Architecture as Space, Again? Notes on the ‘Spatial Turn’, Spéciale’Z 4 (2012), 48–53

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Architecture-as-Space-Again-Notes-on-the-Spatial-Turn.pdf

Miastoprojekt Goes Abroad. Transfer of Architectural Labor from Socialist Poland to Iraq (1958-1989), The Journal of Architecture 17:3 (2012), 361–86

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek-Miastoprojekt-goes-abroad_small.pdf

Building Export From Socialist Poland. On The Traces of a Photograph, ANZA (Dar es Salaam) 1 (2011), 22–3

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ANZA-Stanek.pdf

This Is Not an Academic Text, with Tahl Kaminer, in: Wooller, K. ed., 20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse (London: AA, 2011), 79–84

Teoría, no método: Henri Lefebvre, investigación y diseño urbanos en la actualidad, Revista URBAN 2 (2011), 59-66, with Christian Schmid

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Dialnet-TeoriaNoMetodoHenriLefebvreInvestigacionYDisenoUrb-3762650.pdf

Collective Luxury: Architecture and Populism in Charles Fourier, HUNCH 14: Publicity (2010), 128–37

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Collective-Luxury_normal.pdf

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

Lessons from Nanterre, in: LOG 13-14 (2008), 59–67

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek_LOG-13-fall-2008.pdf

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

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Stanek_Concrete-Abstraction.pdf

Simulation or Hospitality—Beyond the Crisis of Representation in Nowa Huta, in: Frers, L., Meier, L., eds., Visual and Material Performances in the City (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 135–53

Re-reading ‘The Production of Space’: Towards a Methodology of Urban Research, Zeithistorische Forschung 3 (2007)

https://lukaszstanek.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ZF_3_2007_461_465_Stanek.pdf

Follow the Image, in: P. Bujas et al eds., Lifting the Curtain. Central European Architectural Networks, Liège, Editions Fourre-Tout (2018), 208-17

This Is Not an Academic Text, with Tahl Kaminer, in: Wooller, K. ed., 20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse (London: AA, 2011), 79–84

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

Simulation or Hospitality—Beyond the Crisis of Representation in Nowa Huta, in: Frers, L., Meier, L., eds., Visual and Material Performances in the City (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 135–53