Łukasz Stanek is professor of architectural history at the Manchester School of Architecture, University of Manchester, UK. 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). Currently Stanek studies the Africanization of Ghanaian architecture as part of the Centering Africa Program at the Canadian Center for Architecture. Stanek has also taught at ETH