Lydia Kallipoliti named Columbia GSAPP's new Advanced Architectural Design program director

Columbia GSAPP has appointed architect, engineer, and academic Lydia Kallipoliti as the new director of its Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program. She joins the Morningside Heights campus from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, where she has been working as an Associate Professor and Senior Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Design. Kallipoliti, a noted ecological design expert known for her distinctive “immersive scholarship” approach, will also teach students as a tenured Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation beginning in the Fall of 2024. She recently served as Head Co-Curator (with Areti Markopoulou) of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale and taught previously at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, the University of Technology Sydney, and her alma mater Princeton in addition to leading the New York-based ANAcycle design+writing studio.

Lydia Kallipoliti named Columbia GSAPP's new Advanced Architectural Design program director

Columbia GSAPP has appointed architect, engineer, and academic Lydia Kallipoliti as the new director of its Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program. She joins the Morningside Heights campus from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, where she has been working as an Associate Professor and Senior Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Design.

Kallipoliti, a noted ecological design expert known for her distinctive “immersive scholarship” approach, will also teach students as a tenured Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation beginning in the Fall of 2024. She recently served as Head Co-Curator (with Areti Markopoulou) of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale and taught previously at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, the University of Technology Sydney, and her alma mater Princeton in addition to leading the New York-based ANAcycle design+writing studio.