Senior Designer

Erin Huang is a senior designer at Midcourse; her professional and academic interests lie at the intersection of food systems infrastructure, urban design, and architecture. Previously, she was a designer at MASS Design Group, working on projects within the Food Systems Design Lab, and leading urban design research within the Fringe Cities Design Lab. Her past projects include the Utica Food Hub, The Land institute Masterplan, and Sojourner Truth State Park.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, and her thesis, Alimentary Infrastructures, imagines a new groundwater-based urban future for migrant farmworkers in California’s Central Valley. She has been an invited critic at schools including Columbia, Cornell, Parsons, and Yale University. 

Erin grew up in the mountains of Vancouver, Canada, and is a serial farmer’s market shopper and springtime enthusiast.

Co-Founder & Principal

Amy Mielke is a licensed architect whose work includes large-scale institutional projects, community-based infrastructure, and participatory design. She has spent over a decade at Ennead Architects as Associate Principal and Director of the E-Lab, leading design for large, multi-stakeholder projects for clients including the U.S. Department of State, New York University Langone, and Inova Health. Additionally, she has led projects through the E-Lab including the Water Alert and Testing Resource (Walter), Bronx is Breathing for community-owned infrastructure, and the Southern Boulevard Brownfield Opportunity Area Study in Bronx, NY.  

Amy holds a Master of Architecture II from Yale School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from Oklahoma State University. She is a recipient of the Holcim Foundation Gold Prize alongside Caitlin. Together Amy and Caitlin were also recognized as Young Disrupters by Metropolis’s Game Changers showcase. 

At Midcourse, she brings expertise in managing complex design and construction processes, while advancing civic and community goals. She is an accomplished seamstress, a parent, and a runner. Her most memorable meal was a plate smothered in frijoles refritos. 

Co-Founder & Principal

Midcourse was founded by architect and farmer Caitlin Taylor to apply her design and construction expertise to rebuilding regional food infrastructure. She founded and led the Food Systems Design Lab at MASS Design Group since 2017, and cooperatively founded and operates Four Root Farm, an organic vegetable and flower farm in East Haddam, Connecticut, where she lives with her family.

She holds regular academic appointments at Yale School of Architecture, has served as Interim Managing Director at Stone Barns Center, and lectures widely on her award-winning portfolio. Caitlin holds a Master of Architecture from Yale, where she received the Henry Adams Medal, and a degree in Biochemistry from Wesleyan University. 

She is a licensed architect and a Holcim Foundation Gold Prize recipient, for a project developed in partnership with Amy in 2013. 

Caitlin is a parent, a bearded iris collector, and an avid book hoarder. Her favorite vegetable by far is the humble radicchio.