Michał Murawski

Michał Murawski is an anthropologist of architecture and Lecturer in Critical Area Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London. With a focus on Warsaw and Moscow, his work examines how communist spectres — aesthetic as well as political — continue to haunt the everyday lives of Eastern European cities. His first book, Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw and a City Transfixed, was published by Indiana University Press in 2019. He is currently writing his next book, provisionally entitled Moscow Makeover: Architecture and Politics in Putin’s Paradise.