Lydia Kallipoliti
Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology, and environmental politics. She is Director of the MS in Advanced Architectural Design and Associate Professor at Columbia University GSAPP in New York. Kallipoliti is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds, or, What Is the Power of Shit (Lars Müller Publishers, 2018) and Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia (Actar, 2024), and editor of EcoRedux, an issue of Architectural Design (2010).
Her work has been awarded, published, and exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Istanbul Design Biennial, Shenzhen Biennial, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Onassis Cultural Center, Lisbon Triennale, Royal Institute of British Architects, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and the London Design Museum. She is principal of the awarded design research think tank ANAcycle, recognized for its engagement with waste, recycling, and closed-loop systems.
Kallipoliti was Head Co-Curator, together with Areti Markopoulou, of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, themed Edible, or, The Architecture of Metabolism. She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), a Master of Science (SMArchS) from MIT, and a PhD from Princeton University.
