Lydia Kallipoliti

Lydia Kallipoliti is a Greek architect, engineer, architectural historian, action researcher, and scholar. Her work examines interdisciplinary studies involving architecture, technology, and environmental politics. Her research has contributed to the way architecture engages with ecological pedagogies, by confronting waste, recycling, and closed-loop systems.

Early life and education Kallipoliti grew up in Thessaloniki where she graduated from Anatolia College in 1994. She studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and graduated with a diploma in architecture and engineering. She has a Master of Science in architecture studies from MIT, a Master of Arts and a PhD from Princeton University.

Career Lydia Kallipoliti is currently the Director of the Master of Science degree in Advanced Architectural Design and an Associate Professorhttps://www.arch.columbia.edu/news/lydia-kallipoliti at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Additionally, she directs ANAcycle a design studio and thinktank in New York. Kallipoliti was a visiting fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the University of Queensland, and a visiting critic at the University of Technology Sydney. Additionally, she was an assistant professor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Syracuse University.

Exhibitions In 2016, she curated the Closed Worlds exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, supported by grants awarded by the Graham Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts in 2015. Other editions of the exhibition were held at Woodbury University School of Architecture's WUHO Gallery, and at the University of Technology Sydney's Art Gallery.

+ List of Exhibitions Curated by Lydia Kallipoliti Year Title Place 2011 Ecoredux 02: Design Manuals for a Dying Planet Disseny Hub, Barcelona, Spain 2016 Closed Worlds Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York 2019 Closed Worlds University of Technology Sydney, Australia2024Histories of Ecological DesignCooper Union, New York In 2022, Kallipoliti was appointed head co-curator or the Tallinn Architecture Biennale with Areti Markopoilou, following an international competition by the Estonian Museum of Architecture. Their exhibition, "Edible, or, The Architecture of Metabolism," was consequently selected as the winner of the year in universal design in 2023 by the Design Educates Awards. In 2024, she curated the exhibition "Histories of Ecological Design" at Cooper Union in New York in relation to her published book "Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia". + List of Exhibitions as a Design Contributor Year Title Place 2015 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) (“Re-Living The City”). Honorable Mention by the independent jury of the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale. Shenzhen, China 2016 The Third Istanbul Design Biennial (Are We Human?) Istanbul, Turkey 2017 Onassis Culture (Tomorrows: Urban fictions for possible futures) Diplareios School, Athens, Greece 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale (Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth) Oslo, Norway 2019 The Design Museum (Moving to Mars) London, UK 2020 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Design Week (Climate Imagery) Melbourne, Australia 2021 Biennale Architettura 2021 (How Will We Live Together?) Venice, Italy2022Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Cycles). Received Bronze Prize in Design Educates Awards, in the Universal Design category, 2023.Lisbon, Portugal2023Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (METro-BIOSIS). Shortlisted for The World Architecture Festival 2024 - Temporary Uses. Shanghai, China2025La Biennale Di Venezia, Biennale Architecttura (Intelligens. Natural. Artificial)Venice, Italy2025Trienalle di Milano (We, the Bacteria)Milan, Italy

Awards 2010: Webby Awards. 2014: Graham Foundation Production and Presentation Grant for her Closed Worlds exhibition project. 2017: Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. 2019: Best of Design Award for Unbuilt Interiors, The architects Newspaper. 2020: Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022. 2023: Design Educates Awards, Winner of the Year in Universal Design. 2023: Graham Foundation Publication Grant for Edible, or, The Architecture of Metabolism.

Bibliography

Books Lydia Kallipolti is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018), published by Lars Müller Publishers and reviewed by the Journal of Architecture, Idea Journal, The Architect's Newspaper, Abitare, Archinect among other journals and media platforms. Additionally, The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018) was featured in HBO's The White Lotus Series, Season 2.

In 2024, Kallipolti published Histories of Ecological Design, published by Actar Publishers. Translated in Chinese by Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press (2025).

Other Books Include Building Metabolism (2025), published by Actar Publishers EcoRedux: Design Remedies for an Ailing Planet (Architectural Design) (2010), published by Wiley History of Ecological Design (2018), published by Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

Selected Review Articles, Chapters, and Research Papers Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2010). "Dry Rot: The Chemical Origins of British Preservation." Future Anterior Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2010). "The Soft Cosmos of AD’s ‘Cosmorama’ in the 1960s and 1970s." Architectural Design Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2010). "No More Schisms." Architectural Design Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2011). "Eco-Redux: Lydia Kallipoliti: Environmental Architecture from 'Object" to 'System' to 'Cloud.'" PRAXIS: Journal of Writing + Building Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2012). "From Shit to Food: Graham Caine's Eco-House in South London, 1972-1975." Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2015). "Closed Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Dirty Physiology." Architectural Theory Review. Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2015). "Endangered Pieces of Nature and the Architecture of Closed Worlds." Volume () Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2016). "Masters and Slaves" e-flux Architecture. Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2019). "On Interference: Designing Strange Life Forms that Don’t Always Listen." Ardeth Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2019), "Contaminating the Red Planet" published by The Design Museum Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2019), Chapter 14 "Big Dog, Or, The Precarious Aesthetics of Tumbling" published by MIT Press Dragonas, Panos and Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2020). "Silence Murmur." AA Files Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2020), "Zoom In, Zoom Out" e-flux Architecture. Kallipoliti, Lydia and Theodoridis, Andreas. (2024) "Field Notes on Pipes and Plants" Log (60).

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