Lydia Kallipoliti

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology, and environmental politics. She is an Associate Professor at the Cooper Union in New York. Kallipoliti is the author of “The Architecture of Closed Worlds, Or, What is the Power of Shit” (Lars Muller Publishers, 2018) and the “History of Ecological Design” for “Oxford English Encyclopedia of Environmental Science” (2018), as well as the editor of “EcoRedux,” an issue of “Architectural Design” in 2010. Her work has been published and exhibited widely including the Venice Biennial, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Shenzhen Biennial, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Onassis Stegi, the Lisbon Triennale, the Royal Academy of British Architects, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and the London Design Museum. She is the principal of ANAcycle research thinktank, which has been named a leading innovator in sustainable design in Build's 2019 and 2020 awards and Head Co-Curator of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale. Kallipoliti holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from AUTh in Greece, a Master of Science (SMArchS) from MIT, and a PhD from Princeton University.