Konstantina Kalfa
Job Title: Research Associate (since 2018), Adjunct Faculty (since 2012)
Institutional affiliation: National Technical University of Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts
Architectural Historian (PhD in History and Theory of Architecture, School of Architecture, NTUA); Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Art Theory and History of Athens School of Fine Arts; Research Associate at the School of Architecture of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Researcher (since 2018) at four research programs related to Greek post-war reconstruction and development, planning, housing and the Athenian urban centre; PI of the research project “Antiparochì and (its) architects: Histories of social forces, spatial politics and the architectural profession in Greece, 1929-74” [ARCHIPAROCHI] (2018-2021) focusing on the study of the Greek phenomenon of antiparochì (founded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and the General Secretariat of Research and Technology). Member of the Editorial Committee of the e-journal on Greek architecture Archetype.gr. Author of the book Self-Sheltering, Now! The Invisible Side of the American Aid to Greece [in Greek] (Athens: Futura, 2019).
Publications
Kalfa, K. Self-Sheltering, Now! The Invisible Side of the American Aid to Greece. Athens: Futura, 2019. https://futurabooks.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/1036/
Kalfa, K. “Giving tro the World a Demonstration’: US Housing Aid to Greece, 1947- 1951.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80, no. 3 (2021-forthcoming).
Kalfa, K. “Antiparochì and (its) Architects: Greek Architectures in Failure.” In Architecture in Development, edited by A. Dutta. Routledge, 2021.