Łukasz Stanek
NOMIS Senior Fellow 2026–2027

Łukasz Stanek is professor at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (US), since 2022. He also holds an additional appointment in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. After studying architecture and philosophy in Kraków, Münster, and Zurich, and earning a PhD at Delft University of Technology (NL) in 2008, Łukasz taught at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich from 2009 to 2011, and at the University of Manchester (UK) from 2012 to 2022. He was a guest professor at Harvard University in 2012 and at the University of Ghana at Legon (GH) in 2022.

Łukasz is the author of 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). The latter won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2020, among other prizes. His edited volumes include Team 10 East: Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2014) and The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives (Jovis, 2026). He has curated several exhibitions, among them The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture (Architekturmusem der TUM, 2024). He co-founded Office Southeast, an urban research consultancy based in Accra, Ghana.