Lydia Kallipoliti

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, scholar, and an Associate Professor directing the MS in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University GSAPP. Prior to Columbia, Kallipoliti was an Associate Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union in New York, where she also served as a Senior Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Design, and as the Feltman Chair in Lighting. She also taught at Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, the University of Technology Sydney and served as a Visiting Fellow at the Canadian Center of Architecture and the University of Queensland in Australia.

Kallipoliti’s 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. Her work is presented in a variety of media including online digital platforms, lexicons, databases and archives, exhibitions and holographic animations, with the scope of engaging a wide audience in what she calls ‘immersive scholarship.’

In the talk, Lydia Kallipoliti – #architect #educator #researcher #thinker – presents her newly published book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia, followed by a Q&A where we talk about the intentions of writing the book, about how the “waste speaks of the incomplete perception of the World”, the psychological profile of ecological designers and […]

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