Michal Murawski is an anthropologist of architecture and cities and associate professor of critical area studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Murawski is the author of The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw and a City Transfixed, coeditor of Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West, and Re-Centering the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity. Murawski is also co-convenor of PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical: Politics and Aesthetics), a research platform based at UCL.