MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Prof. Eleni Bastéa

Associate Professor

University of New Mexico

Architecture Program, School of Architecture and Planning

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1989 University of California-Berkeley (History of Architecture)

M.A. 1982 University of California-Berkeley (Architecture)

II. Areas of Specialization

History of Architecture

History of Urban Design

Modern Greek Architecture and Urban Design

Memory and Architecture

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

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IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Eleni Bastéa, 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.

Eleni Bastéa, 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.

V. Office Address

School of Architecture and Planning

The University of New Mexico

2414 Central Ave. SE

Albuquerque, NM 87131-1226

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

505-277-8513

Fax: 505-277-0076

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

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Home Telephone (F)=Fax

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VII. Comments and Additional Information

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