Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinidis
Job Title: Professor Emerita
Institutional affiliation: School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
She holds a Degree in Architecture (1969) and a Doctorate in Urban Planning (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1975), and a Diploma in Urban Sociology (EHESS, Paris 1973). Her field of work include planning history, urban modernization and heritage preservation in Greece and in Eastern Mediterranean cities, in the 19th and the 20th centuries. She authored many books and articles, in Greece and abroad, and is member of international planning history/heritage associations; member of the editorial board of “Planning Perspectives” (2010-2021). She has lectured in European and U.S. universities, and carried out many research projects: MODSCAPES– HERA “Uses of the past” (2016-2019); THALES – Designing the City Museum of Volos, European Social Fund (2011-2015); Preserving Places: Managing Mass Tourism, Urban Conservation and Quality of Life in Historic Centres–EU (2008-2010); ΑRTEMIS, Design and Evaluation of Residential Patterns in the Mediterranean Region (1996-2001).
Publications
Hastaoglou-Martinidis, V. “French interests and Salonica’s port, 1872-1912. Enterpreneurial and architectural innovation.” In Thessaloniki. A city in transition, 1912-2012, edited by D. Keridis and J.B. Kiesling, 290-309. London: Routledge, 2020.
Bastea, E., and V. Hastaoglou-Martinidis. “Urban Change and the presistence of memory in modern Thessaloniki.” In Thessaloniki. A city in transition, 1912-2012, edited by D. Keridis and J.B. Kieslings, 260-290. London: Routledge, 2020.
Hastaoglou-Martinidis, V. “The historic harbours of Eastern Mediterranean cities. The challenges of Enhancement.” Edited by Porfyriou, H. and M. Sepe, 43-61. London: Routledge, 2017.
Hastaoglou-Martinidis, V. “Urban aesthetics and national identity: the refashioning of Eastern Mediterranean cities between 1900 and 1940.” Planning perspective 26, no. 2 (2011): 153-182.
Hastaoglou-Martinidis, V. “Cartography of harbour-works in the Eastern Mediterranean cities: The paths of modernisation.” In Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: from Ottoman Times to the Present, edited by M. Toksos and K. Kolluoğlu, 78-99. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010.