Kostas Biris

Kostas Biris (1899-1980), also known as Konstantinos Biris (in Greek Κώστας or Κωνσταντίνος Μπίρης), was a well-know Greek architect and city planner, but also a folklorist.

Books

• 1940, Churches of old Athens
  
• 1942, Gypsies: folklore and ethnological study
  
• 1945, About placenames in Athens
  
• 1946, Recontruction plan for the Capital city
  
  • includes a plan for a unified archaeological park, on the areas of Acropolis, Plaka, Dimosiou Simatos and Iera Odos.
    
• 1952, Karaghiozis: The Greek Folk Theater
  
• 1954, Rom and gypsies: Ethnography and history of tzigane
  
• 1957, History of NTUA
  
• 1957, The Young Bloods of Roumeli in the Greek Shadow Theater, (periodical Nea Estia 61)
  
• 1958, For modern Athens, studies and contests
  
• 1960, Arvanites, the Dorians of modern Hellenism, history of Arvanites Greeks
  
• 1962, Apostle Paul in Athens
  
• 1966, Athens from the 19th to the 20th century

Links

Churches on Psirri (Greek)

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