Konstantina Kalfa
Konstantina Kalfa earned her PhD in architectural history and theory at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She is the recipient of numerous awards and highly-competitive grants, including the PI Research Grant from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology for her project Antiparochì and (its) architects: Histories of social forces, spatial politics and the architectural profession in Greece, 1929-74 (2018-2021). Her publications on housing and architecture’s political economy and production mechanisms appear in edited volumes including Architecture in development: Systems and the emergence of the Global South, critically acclaimed as a ‘timely book address[ing] a major blind spot in contemporary architectural scholarship,’ and esteemed journals in the field: Architectural Histories; PLATFORM-Provocative, Timely, Diverse; the Architecture beyond Europe Journal; the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Rethinking Marxism and Architecture and Culture. Kalfa also co-created the documentary film Antiparochì-A short introduction, presenting her oral history research on the Greek land-for-flats system antiparochì and co-edited the Section ‘Small-scale building enterprise and global home ownership in the age of economic expansion’ of ABE Journal 19 (2022). She is the author of the book Self-sheltering now! The invisible side of the U.S. aid to Greece [in Greek] (Athens: Futura, 2019), praised in prominent daily journals and on the Greek State Broadcasting Corporation radio, and cited in a documentary, a theater play held at the esteemed Athens Epidaurus Festival, as well as in a series of Greek and international books and academic articles in peer-reviewed journals.