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The Architectural Gift

Lukasz Stanek in conversation with Frances Richard

Gifted buildings are potent mechanisms of international exchange and geopolitical reshuffling. Embedded in the act of gifting a building — and the production and maintenance of the building — is an uneven power relation between gift-giver and receiver. How do such architectural gifts shape the social and political economies of cities in transition?

Gifted buildings are potent mechanisms of geopolitical reshuffling, premised on an uneven power relation between giver and receiver. How do such exchanges shape cities in transition?

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