Lydia Kallipoliti
is an architect, engineer and scholar. She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki (Greece), a SMArchS in design and building technology from M.I.T, as well as a Master of Arts and a PhD from
Princeton University.
Prior to Cooper Union, Kallipoliti was an Assistant Professor at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she directed the MSArch Program, an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and
an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Columbia University [GSAPP] and at the Cooper Union, where she served as a Senior Associate
at the Institute for Sustainable Design, and as the Feltman Chair in Lighting. Her research focuses on the intersections
of architecture, technology and environmental politics and more particularly on recycling material experiments, theories of
waste and reuse, as well as closed and self-reliant systems and urban environments.