MIT World Speakers

Carola Hein

Carola Hein is Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program. She trained in Hamburg (Diplom-Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and obtained her doctorate at the Hochschule fr bildende Knste in Hamburg in 1995 on the topic of "Hauptstadt Europa." She has published and lectured widely on topics of contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning. From 1995 to 1999 she was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kogakuin University, studying the reconstruction of Japanese cities after World War II and the Western influence on Japanese urban planning.