QUILIAN RIANO
Pratt Institute School of Architecture Dean
DSGN AGNC Founder and Principal
MArch (Advanced Placement) – Harvard University GSD
BDes in Architecture (Summa Cum Laude) – University of Florida SoA
Quilian (pronounced: Killian) is an architectural and urban designer, researcher, writer, and educator.
Quilian is the Dean of Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, working across the school’s architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, and management programs. Quilian also serves as the Vice President for Architecture of the Architectural League of New York.
Quilian founded and leads 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.
Over the last few decades, Quilian has taught undergraduate and graduate studios in architecture, urban design, art, and transdisciplinary design at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Harvard University, Columbia University, Carleton University, Parsons The New School of Design, Syracuse University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, the City College of New York, Tuskegee University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Kent State University.
Quilian is also involved in many transformative practices/collectives such as being an initiator and core member of Dark Matter U., a democratic network committed to creating new forms of knowledge and knowledge production, institutions, collectivity, practice, design, and community culture. Quilian has also been a member, part of the executive committee, and served in the board of The Architecture Lobby. Finally, Quilian worked in the first few key years of Architecture 2030, a nonprofit that seeks to make the building sector central to solutions to the climate crisis, as well as the director of the 2030 Palette project.
Quilian holds a Masters of Architecture (MArch) from the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he received advanced placement, and a Bachelors of Design in Architecture (BDes) with Summa Cum Laude from the University of Florida’s School of Architecture.
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FULL LIST OF PREVIOUS AGNTS
DK Osseo-Asare (Ghana), ’09-’11 – co-founder
Fernando Canteli de Castro, ’16
Miguel Castaneda, ’14
Rena Mande ’11-’14
Danielle Letitia ’09-’14
Nic Ter Meer ’09-’14
Jessica Sanclemente ’12-’14
Scarlett Esion ’13-’14
Matt Uminski ’13
Melissa Frost (NYC) ’11-’12
Philip Grimaldi (NYC) ’11-’12
Amanda Rekemeyer (NYC) ’11-’12
Mark Gusmann (CA) ’10-’11
Zenon Tech-Czarny (NYC) ’10-’11
Rachel Lehrer (NYC) ’11
Howard Chambers (NYC) ’11
Patricia Florescu (Boston) ’10-’11
