Helen Fessas-Emmanouil

Helen Fessas-Emmanouil
Architectural historian,
Professor Emerita, Athens University
6 Goura St, 105 58 Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 2103312566, efessa@theatre.uoa.gr
https://www.femarch.gr/fessa/
https://www.femarch.gr/fessas-en/



CURRICULUM VITAE

Helen Fessas-Emmanouil (b. 1943) is an architectural historian and Professor Emerita of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens. She studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (1962-1967) from which she received a Ph.D.
Her work focuses on late 19th and especially 20th century architecture in Greece, examined in their historical and cultural context as well as in relation to contemporary world architecture. She has published extensively in Greek and foreign journals, conference proceedings and collective scholarly monographs. She authored (or co-authored and edited) twenty one books on public buildings, outstanding Greek architects, architectural history and theory and performing arts. Her most important books are the two-volume Theatre Architecture in Modern Greece, 1720-1940 (1994, Academy of Athens Prize), the book Aristotelis Zachos & Josef Durm. The correspondence between a pioneer architect and his mentor, 1905-1914 (2013), "Basile Couremenos, Architect" (2017, Academy of Athens - Kapon Editions) and the five bilingual books (full text in Greek and English): Ideological and Cultural Issues in the Architecture of Modern Greece, 1827-1940 (1987); Public Architecture in Modern Greece, 1720-1940 (1993); Essays on Neohellenic Architecture (2001, honourable mention by the International Academy of Architecture / Interarch, 2003); Twelve Greek Architects of the Interwar Period  (in collaboration with Emmanuel V. Marmaras); and Pericles Sakellarios, Architect (1905-1995) (2006, in collaboration with E. Sakellariou-Herzog). She is the editor and principal author of the book, Hellenic Architectural Society. 20th Century Architects, members of the Society (in Greek, 2009).
In 1991 she  participated in the 5th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale di Venezia as Greece’s curator, responsible for the exhibition New Public Buildings by N. Valsamakis, S. and D. Antonakakis and A. Tombazis.
In 2002 she was responsible for the research and writing of all the texts of  the Greek participation in the CD-ROM «Discovering contemporary architecture in Paris, London and Athens», which was produced in three languages –French, English and Greek- as part of  the European Union’s Culture 2000 program (www.culture2000.tee.gr).
She participated as coordinator of the Greek group to the research program of the Architectural Bureau of the  Academy of Athens: “Highlights of Balkan Architecture and Town Planning”. She contributed with her essay “Greece: The History behind the Myth” to the research and publication project CIAM IV. The Functional City, which was a co-operative venture of the gta Archives -ETH Zurich and the EFL Foundation in The Hague.
From 2019-2021she worked as senior consultant of the first DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF GREEK FEMALE ARCHITECTS, compiled by a scientific committee at the initiative of the Attica Department of the Association of Greek Architects and supported by the Ministry of Culture. (https://www.femarch.gr and www.femarch.gr/en/)
Phone: +30 2103312566
Address: 6 Goura St.,
105 58 ATHENS, GREECE