The New School

Carolin Mees

Part-time Assistant Professor

Email
meesc@newschool.edu

Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street

Profile

Carolin Mees is an architect and researcher based in New York City and Berlin. She holds a Dr. Ing. in Architecture from the Berlin University of Arts, a Master of Architecture (Dipl. Ing) of the Berlin University of Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture (Vordiplom) of the Hamburg Academy of Arts. She has been teaching internationally in the field of architecture, urban design, and open space planning at the graduate and undergraduate university level since 2009 including at Parsons School of Design at The New School University, the Technical University Berlin, the Graz Technical University, and the University Hohenheim. She also has been a guest critic at various universities such as Yale University’s School of Architecture, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and Rutgers University. From 2020-2021 Carolin was a Senior Post Doctoral Fellow of the Alexander of Humboldt Foundation at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2005 Carolin works individually and collaboratively in the field of architecture, design, urban and open space planning. She has collaborated on design/built projects with various teams of architects and artists as well as municipal, non-profit and community-based organizations such as New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City’s Mayor Office, GrowNYC, the City Parks Foundation, Friends of Governors Island, Museum of Food and Drink, Brooklyn Grange, Eagle Slope, Operation Himmelblick, Rote Beete/ Centre Francais Berlin and Berlin’s Senate for the Environment, Mobility, Traffic, Consumer and Climate Protection.

For more information, view her webpage www.mees-architecture.com.

Degrees Held

PhD / Dr.-Ing. in Architecture, Berlin University of Arts

Master / Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture, Berlin University of Arts

Bachelor / Vordiplom in Architecture, University of FIne Arts of Hamburg

Recent Publications

Urban Open Space+ Strategies at the Intersection of Architecture and Open Space Planning. Jovis, 2021 - Editor and Author: Carolin Mees

More shared urban Open Space. Resiliency on Demand. Agriculture and Human Values Journal, Volume 37, Issue 3, 2020 - Author: Carolin Mees

Participatory design and self-building in shared urban open spaces: Community Gardens and Casitas in New York City Book (Monograph), Urban Agriculture Book Series, Springer, Spring 2018 - Author: Carolin Mees

US Pavillion in Venedig: Ein zeitgemäßes Konzept von Staatsbürgerschaft

Bauwelt 10.18: Biennale, 2018 - Author: Carolin Mees

Villen stapeln in Tribeca

Bauwelt 17.17: Wohnhochhaus für alle?, 2017 - Author: Carolin Mees

Participatory planning, design and self-built structures for public urban gardens: Community gardens and Casitas in the South Bronx

Proceedings of the Sustainable Built Environments Conference, peer-reviewed, September 2016 - Author: Carolin Mees

Rebuilt Rubble - Community Gardens in the South Bronx from 1970s to the 21st century: Common land use in the inner city from a socioeconomic open space planning perspective. PhD/ Dr. Ing. thesis, Berlin University of Arts, Faculty of Architecture, 2015 - Author: Carolin Mees

OfficeUS - Interview

Bauwelt 21.14: Werkstatt Biennale - Author: Carolin Mees

Urbane Landwirtschaft

Bauwelt 39.12: Urbane Landwirtschaft - Editors: Nils Ballhausen, Carolin Mees

Zwischen Hobby und Stadtplanung: Urbane Landwirtschaft

Bauwelt 39.12: Urbane Landwirtschaft - Author: Carolin Mees

Community Gardening Works! ACGA 2011 Conference

Cities and the Environment (CATE), Volume 5, Issue 1, 2012 - Editors: Nancy Falxa-Raymond, Carolin Mees

Zoned out: The Potential of Urban Agriculture Planning to turn against its roots.

Cities and the Environment online Journal (CATE), peer reviewed, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2012 - Authors: Edie Stone, Carolin Mees

Food, homes and gardens: public community gardens potential for contributing to a more sustainable city

Sustainable food planning: evolving theory and practice, 2012 - Authors: Edie Stone, Carolin Mees

Shigeru Ban in West Chelsea

Bauwelt 03.12: Zusammen und getrennt, 2012 - Author: Carolin Mees

Architekturfakultät der Cornell-Universität in Ithaca: Architekturlehre im Schaufenster.

Bauwelt 39-40.11: Gebaute Landschaft, 2011 - Author: Carolin Mees

Guerilla Gardening und andere politische Gartenbewegungen. Eine globale Perspektive.

Urban Gardening: Über die Rückkehr der Gärten in die Stadt, 2011, Ed. Christa Müller - Authors: Ella von der Haide, Julia Jahnke, Severin Halder, Carolin Mees

A public garden per resident? The socio-economic context of homes and gardens in the inner city

ISHS Acta Horticulturae 881, 2010 - Author: CarolinMees

Städtisches Land gemeinschaftlich genutzt.

Stadt und Grün, 2010/3 - Author: Carolin Mees

Bürgerparks und Nachbarschaftsgärten in Berlin

Stadt und Grün, 2010/3 - Author: Carolin Mees

Module urbaner Landwirtschaft

Stadt und Grün, 2010/9 - Author: Carolin Mees

Urban Agriculture. Nahrungsmittelproduktion und Stadt

Arch+ 196/197: Post-Oil City, 2010 - Author: Carolin Mees

Community Gardens in New York City: Privat-gemeinschaftlich genutzte öffentliche Gärten für innerstädtischen Wohnraum im Freien

KUNST - GARTEN - KULTUR. Ed. Gröning, Gert; Hennecke, Stefanie Hennecke. Berlin, 2010 - Author: Carolin Mees