IN THE NEWS: Stanek’s Intersections exhibition featured in The Architect’s Newspaper

Intersections, an exhibition exploring the collaboration between Ghanaian architect Victor Adegbite and Hungarian architect Charles Polónyi in post-colonial Accra, was recently featured in The Architect’s Newspaper. Curated by Taubman College’s Łukasz Stanek and Michael Dziwornu, a geographer at the University of Ghana, in collaboration with Ph.D. student Dana Salama, the exhibit is on display at the Wende Museum in Culver City, California, through April 12, 2026.

The article gives an overview of the historic collaboration between Adegbite and Polónyi in the Ghanaian capital, its significance today, and the research behind the exhibit, noting that “Intersections speaks to this period in 20th-century history when there was dynamic exchange between socialist, non-aligned, and newly independent countries outside the Global West — a subject Stanek specializes in as an architectural historian.”

Stanek is a professor of architecture and an expert on Cold War collaborations between architects from Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East. Recently, he and Dziwornu, co-founded the Accra-based Office Southeast research collective.

The article goes on to say, “For Stanek, Intersections was as much about documenting these housing projects as well as revealing the paradoxes of the post-colonial period more broadly. ‘Polónyi was a conservative thinker. He never joined the Communist Party in Hungary,’ Stanek noted. ‘For him, emigrating to Ghana was a chance to miss the trials and tribulations of life in Hungary. It was an unusual trajectory.’”

Read the full article at The Architect’s Newspaper.

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