The Copernicus Center for Polish Studies (CCPS) is pleased to welcome Łukasz Stanek, architectural history professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, as the acting director for Fall 2025 and Winter 2026. Professor Stanek is a member of the Copernicus Center Steering Committee and one of the University of Michigan's key faculty members in Polish studies.
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). The latter won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (2020), among other prizes. His edited volumes include Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment by Henri Lefebvre (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 (Ashgate, 2014, with Ákos Moravánszky and Christian Schmid).
Stanek received a Master of Architecture from Kraków University of Technology, Master of Philosophy from the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland), and a PhD from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Welcome, Łukasz!
