Eleni Bastéa

Eleni Bastéa, M.Arch., Ph.D.
Professor, Architecture Program
School of Architecture and Planning
The University of New Mexico

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS, COMPLETED

“Αthens 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); 446 pp. ISBN 978-960-490-084-6.

“Memory and Architecture”. Eleni Bastéa, editor and contributor (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004); 335 pp. ISBN 0.8263.3269.2. Reviewed in the “Journal of Architectural Education”, vol. 60, no. 2 (November 2006) and in Material Culture.

“The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); 280 pp. ISBN 0.521.64120.9. Co-winner of the John D. Criticos Prize, administered by the London Hellenic Society; finalist for the Sir Steven Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League of London.

Reviewed in the “Journal of Architectural Education”, vol. 53, no. 4 (May 2000); the “Society for the Anthropology of Europe Bulletin”, vol. 14, no. 2 (May 2000); the “Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians”, vol. 60, no. 3, (Sept. 2001), and other publications.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Forthcoming

“Modernization and its discontents in post-1950s Thessaloniki: Urban Change and Urban Narratives,” Eleni Bastéa and Vilma Hastaoglou, in “Landscapes of Development: The impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean”, Panayota Pyla, editor. Harvard University Press. In Press. Forthcoming, Refereed.

“Beyond the Debt to Antiquity: Constructing a National Architecture for Modern Greece,” in “Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities: Towards a Critical History of Greek Archaeology”, Sofia Voutsaki and Paul Cartledge, editors (Ashgate Publishing, UK, In preparation). Refereed.

Published

“Athens 1832-1940: Becoming a National Capital,” in “Planning Central and South-Eastern European Capital Cities in the Age of Nationalism”, Emily Gunzburger Makaš and Tanja Damljanovic, editors. Alexandrine Press (Routledge, 2010). Refereed.

“Atina. Sokağa İmgeler Oymak” [Athens. Etching Images on the Street: Planning and National Aspirations], in “Şehirler ve Sokaklar”, Istanbul, 2007; 35-53. The book, published in Turkish, includes selected essays from “Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space”, 1994 (see below).

“Storied Cities: Literary Memories of Thessaloniki and Istanbul,” in Eleni Bastéa, ed. “Memory and Architecture”, (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004): 191-210. Refereed.

“Dimitris Pikionis and Sedad Eldem: Parallel Reflections of Vernacular and National Architecture,” in “The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories”, Keith Brown and Yannis Hamilakis, editors (Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK: Lexington Books, 2003): 147-169. Refereed.

“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, (Aldershot, UK: Variorum, 1997); 209 – 30. Refereed.

“Forging a National Image: Building Modern Athens,” in “Constructed Meaning: Form and Process in Greek Architecture”, Eleftherios Pavlides and Susan Sutton, editors, (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1995). Also included in “Modern Greek Studies Yearbook” 10/11 (1994 – 95): 297 – 317. Refereed.

“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, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994); 111 – 24. Refereed.

“Introduction to Architectural Issues” and “European Capitals in the Nineteenth Century” in “Architecture Reading Lists and Course Outlines”, Georgia Bizios, editor, North Carolina State University, 1991; 33 – 9 and 259 –63.

ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Nineteenth-century Travellers in the Greek Lands: Politics, Prejudice, and Poetry in Arcadia.” “Dialogos. Hellenic Studies” Review, U.K., no. 4 (1997); 47 – 69. Refereed.

“Κληρονομημένος χώρος, δημιουργημένος χώρος. Γλώσσα, γένος και αρχιτεκτονική” [Inherited Space, Created Space: Language, Gender, and Architecture] «Ύλη και κτίριο», 13 (Thessaloniki, August – Sept. 1993).

“Professional Sabbatical.” “The Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 8: Special Issue” (1991): 42 – 5. Refereed and winner of the Walter Wagner Education Forum, 1991.

“The Sweet Deceit of Tradition: National Ideology and Greek Architecture.” “Twenty One / Art and Culture 1”, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 84 – 101. Refereed.

“Modern American Academia.” “Bulletin of the Organization of Women Architects”. 15, no. 1 (January – February 1988): 3 – 4.

“Our City: Salonica.” “Places” 1, no. 3 (Spring 1984): 26 – 32. Refereed.

GENERAL-CIRCULATION MAGAZINES

“Venice without Gondolas” (poem & photographs) .“Cent” Magazine, UK, Spring/Summer 2009; pp. 86-7

“Looking at Frank Gehry Upside-Down,” .“Cent” Magazine, UK, Spring/Summer 2008; pp. 66-69. Essay by Eleni Bastéa. Photography by Eleni Bastéa and Mark Forte.

“Madeleines and Hummus, Antique Armchairs and Cellphones,” “Ambidextrous”, Issue 7, Summer 2007, pp. 40-42. Ambidextrous is published in association with the Stanford d.school.

“A Place of our own”. Eleni Bastéa with Terron Cox, Paul Gibson, Caroline Itoi, Louvenia Magee, and Jode Nyboer .“Cent” Magazine, UK, Spring/Summer 2007; pp. 30-34.

“Culture: Shelf Life, Interview with Eleni Bastéa,” “Albuquerque, The Magazine”, March 2006, p. 114.

“The Memory of Buildings,” .“Cent” Magazine, UK, Spring 2006, Issue 6, pp. 39-42.

CREATIVE WRITING

“The High Heels,” short story [in Greek], Winner of the 2006 Navarino Foundation Prize. The story will be included in the Modern Greek Reader, Dartmouth College. It was published in the “Anatolia College Alumnus”, Spring 2007, pp. 53-55.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Architecture: Domestic,” (127 – 130); “Architecture: Public Works,” (137 – 140); “Cities,” (343 –-44); “Neoclassicism” (1137 – 39) and “Town Planning,” (1654 – 56); in the “Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition”, Graham Speake, editor, (London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000). The Encyclopedia was one of the finalists for the Sir Steven Runciman Award, 2001.

“Thessaloniki,” and “Athens,” entries in the “Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World”, Paul Oliver, editor, (London: Cambridge University Press, 1997), vol. 2, 1491 – 92, 1497 – 98.

“Athens 529 – 1204,” and “Athens 1205 – 1834” entries in “The Grove Dictionary of Art”, Jane Turner, editor, (London: Grove, 1996), vol. 2, 670 – 73.

BOOK REVIEWS

Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios, ed. “When Greeks Think About Turks: The View from Anthropology”. Routledge: London, 2007 in “Journal of Modern Greek Studies” 26 (2008), pp. 515-518.

Vijay Agnew, editor, “Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) in “Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography” (August 2007) vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 503-505.

Eleana Yalouri, “The Acropolis: Global Fame, Local Claim” (Oxford: Berg, 2001) in “Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies” (Fall 2003).

Tasos Tanoulas, Τα προπύλαια της Αθηναϊκής Ακρόπολης κατά τον Μεσαίωνα [The Propylaia of the Athenian Acropolis during the Middle Ages] (Athens: Athens Archaeological Society, 1997) in “Bryn Mawr Classical Review” 2001.04.01

Magali Sarfatti Larson, “Behind the Postmodern Façade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America” (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993) in Practices, Issue 3/4 (Spring 1995); 77 – 81.

J. G. Davies, “Temples, Churches and Mosques” (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982) in “Design Book Review” 2:20 (Summer 1983).