Prof. Eleni Bastéa
Professor
University of New Mexico
Architecture Program, School of Architecture and Planning
Degrees
Ph.D. 1989 University of California-Berkeley (History of Architecture)
M.A. 1982 University of California-Berkeley (Architecture)
Principal Publications
The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Co-winner of the John D. Criticos Prize and a finalist for the Sir Runciman Award.
Athens 1834-1896: Neoclassical City planning and Greek National Consciousness [in Greek; translation of The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth], translated by Eleni Bastéa. Libro publishers, Athens, Greece, 2008.
Editor, Memory and Architecture, University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
"Dimitris Pikionis and Sedad Eldem: Parallel Reflections of Vernacular and National Architecture," in The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories, Keith Brown and Yannis Hamilakis, editors, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
"Regularization and Resistance: Urban Transformation in Late-nineteenth-century Greece," in Greek Society in the Making, 1863 – 1913: Realities, Symbols, and Visions, Philip Carabott, editor, Variorum, 1997.
"Nineteenth-century Travellers in the Greek Lands: Politics, Prejudice, and Poetry in Arcadia," Dialogos. Hellenic Studies Review, U.K., no. 4 (1997); 47 – 69.
"Athens. Etching Images on the Street: Planning and National Aspirations," in Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space, Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro, and Richard Ingersoll, editors, University of California Press, 1994.
"The Sweet Deceit of Tradition: National Ideology and Greek Architecture." Twenty One / Art and Culture 1, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 84 – 101.
"Our City: Salonica." Places 1, no. 3 (Spring 1984): 26 – 32.
