Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland

Florian Urban is Professor of Architectural History, and Head of History of Architectural and Urban Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He was born and raised in Munich, Germany, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Berlin, an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA and a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from MIT. He is the author, among others, of Neo-historical East Berlin - Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990 (Ashgate, 2009), Tower and Slab - Histories of Global Mass Housing (Routledge, 2012), and The New Tenement - Architecture in the Inner City since 1970 (Routledge 2018). In 2018/19 he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.