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Lydia Kallipoliti is a Greek architect, engineer, architectural historian, action researcher, and scholar. Her work examines interdisciplinary studies involving architecture, technology, and environmental politics.

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

Kallipoliti was a visiting fellow at the Canadian Center for Architecture, the University of Queensland, and a visiting critic at the University of Technology Sydney. She currently works as an assistant professor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. She had been an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, and an assistant professor Adjunct at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She manages ANAcycle a design studio and thinktank based in New York.

Exhibitions

In 2016, she curated the Closed Worlds exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, funded by a grant awarded by 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.

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.

• 2020: Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022.

Bibliography

Books

• EcoRedux: Design Remedies for an Ailing Planet (Architectural Design) (2010), published by Wiley ISBN 9780470746622
• The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018), published by Lars Müller Publishers ISBN 9783037785805
• History of Ecological Design (2018), published by Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.144
• Contaminating the Red Planet (2019), published by The Design Museum ISBN 9781872005461
• Chapter 14: Big Dog, Or, The Precarious Aesthetics of Tumbling (2019), published by MIT Press ISBN 9780262039437

Selected review articles and research papers

• Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2010). "Dry Rot: The Chemical Origins of British Preservation." Future Anterior doi:10.1353/fta.2010.0000
• Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2010). "The Soft Cosmos of AD’s ‘Cosmorama’ in the 1960s and 1970s." Architectural Design doi:10.1002/ad.1160
• Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2010). "No More Schisms." Architectural Design doi:10.1002/ad.1158
• 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 doi:10.5749/buildland.19.1.0087
• Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2015). "Closed Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Dirty Physiology." Architectural Theory Review. doi:10.1080/13264826.2015.1078385
• Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2015). "Endangered Pieces of Nature and the Architecture of Closed Worlds." Volume (ISSN 1574-9401)
• Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2019). "On Interference: Designing Strange Life Forms that Don’t Always Listen." Ardeth doi:10.17454/ARDETH05.13
• Dragonas, Panos and Kallipoliti, Lydia. (2020). "Silence Murmur." AA Files

See also

• Souzána Antonakáki
• Elisabeth Sakellariou
• Theano Fotiou

References

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External links

• Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2022 Official website
• Page on Academia
• ANAcycle thinktank website
• The Closed Worlds Project Website

• 21st-century Greek architects
• Greek scholars
• Greek academics
• Architectural historians
• Living people
• Cooper Union faculty
• Engineers from Thessaloniki
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
• Greek women architects