The University of New Mexico
2414 Central Ave. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1226
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Areas of Specialization
History of Architecture
History of Urban Design
Modern Greek Architecture and Urban Design
Memory and Architecture
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Not available
Prof. Eleni Bastéa
Associate 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.
Editor, Memory and Architecture, University of New Mexico Press, Forthcoming 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.