Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar. She is Assistant Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York (USA). Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture, technology and environmental politics and, more particularly, on recycling material experiments, theories of waste and reuse. Lydia holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR), an SMArchS in design and building technology from M.I.T (USA), as well as a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (USA).