Lydia Kallipoliti

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, curator and scholar. She is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Master of Science program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 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. Kallipoliti has taught at Columbia University GSAPP, Pratt Institute, Syracuse University and the Cooper Union and holds degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Dipl. Arch-Eng.), MIT (SMArchS) and Princeton University (PhD).