Konstantina Kalfa, Architect (NTUA), is Assistant Professor of architectural history and theory at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), with a focus on modern and contemporary architecture. Her research and publications explore the complex processes involved in (a) the formation of the architectural profession, (b) the consolidation of architectural forms in specific historical periods, and, ultimately, (c) their interaction with broader social, political, and economic contexts. Her recent work concentrates on housing practices within the framework of postwar “modernization.” She has published in leading international journals and edited volumes in the field of architectural history, including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Histories, PLATFORM, ABE Journal, and the volume Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South, produced by the distinguished Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative. She also co-produced the documentary Antiparochì: A Short Introduction, which features oral histories related to the antiparochi system (land-for-apartments exchange), and co-edited the thematic section “Small-Scale Building Enterprise and Global Home Ownership in the Age of Economic Expansion” in ABE Journal 19 (2022). She is the author of Self-sheltering, now! The invisible side of the American aid to Greece (Athens: Futura, 2019), which is currently being reissued in an expanded edition by Sygchroni Epochi Press. Her book and other publications have received substantial scholarly attention and citation. She served as principal investigator of the research project Antiparochi and Its Architects: Histories of Social Forces, Spatial Policies, and the Architectural Profession in Greece, 1929–1974 (ARCHIPAROCHI, 2018–2022), funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, with the National Technical University of Athens as the host institution. She is also Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project MCH-EsMed (https://mch-esmed.ims.forth.gr/).

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Email: kkalfa@asfa.gr