Lydia Kallipoliti: Building Metabolism

The FIU School of Architecture is proud to welcome Lydia Kallipoliti, architect, engineer, and scholar, for a lecture on her groundbreaking new book Building Metabolism.

About The Lecture

In Building Metabolism, Kallipoliti reimagines architecture as a living, metabolic system. Moving beyond extractive and consumptive models, her work envisions homes and cities that process waste, generate resources, and nurture communities at risk.

Expanding on her curatorial work for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale (EDIBLE), the book challenges us to rethink how architecture constructs and distributes power through material recycling, interspecies alliances, and the visceral ecologies of our own bodies.

About Lydia Kallipoliti

Lydia Kallipoliti is Associate Professor and Director of the MSAAD Program at Columbia University GSAPP, as well as the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018) and Histories of Ecological Design (2024).

Her award-winning work has been exhibited worldwide, including the Venice Biennial, Istanbul Design Biennial, Shenzhen Biennial, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Lisbon Triennale, Royal Academy of British Architects, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and the London Design Museum.

She is the principal of the ANAcycle research think tank and served as Head Co-Curator of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale.

Join us for this thought-provoking event as Lydia Kallipoliti explores how architecture can metabolize the world we live in, reshaping the way we think about land, bodies, and resources.