Quilian Riano
Assistant Dean at Pratt Institute School of Architecture
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EDUCATION
Quilian holds a Bachelors of Design in Architecture (BDes) from the University of Florida’s School of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture (MArch) from the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD).
BIOGRAPHY
Quilian Riano is an architectural and urban designer and the Assistant Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to this, he served as the Associate Director of Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC), where he provided strategy and design coordination for the CUDC’s urban design, applied research, publication and academic activities. Quilian has worked in and with public institutions, such as New York City’s Department of Design and Construction as a lead design strategist and the National Park Service as an urban design consultant. Quilian is also the founder and lead designer of DSGN AGNC, a design studio exploring new forms of political design, processes and engagements through architecture, urbanism, landscapes and art. Quilian/DSGN AGNC’s design work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, Queens Museum of Art, Harvard University, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, The New Museum, the Center for Architecture, the Architectural League of New York, among others. For this work, Quilian has won awards from the Vilcek Foundation, the American Society of Landscape Architects, Harvard University, The Boston Society of Architects, and the University of Florida and received fellowships from the Design Trust for Public Space, Institute for Public Architecture, and the J. Max Bond Center for the Just City at CUNY, among others. Quilian has over a decade of teaching experience, having taught undergraduate and graduate studios in architecture, urban design, and transdisciplinary design at Harvard University, Columbia University, Carleton University, Parsons The New School of Design, The Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, the City College of New York, and Kent State University. Quilian is an initiator and core member of Dark Matter University.
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Quilian Riano Interviews Building A Better Warren Crew
Reclaiming Land, Building the Urban Commons
Quilian Riano's vilcek speech
Reworking Architecture [Trailer]
FF – Distance Edition: SITU
American Roundtable: In the Mahoning Valley, Ohio
Post-Pandemic Architectural Education: Inclusion, Equity, and Resilience
C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-E-S — ABC School — Speaker Session
Urban Farming / Common Ground Panel
DMU x Tuskegee: ARCH 100: Quilian Riano
Quilian Riano receives the 2014 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Design
Alternative Practices Workshop
The Grand Design
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