CONTACT | PRESS ABOUT QUILIAN
QUILIAN’S TEACHING PORTFOLIO (2009-2016)
DESIGN PORTFOLIOS:
–DSGN AGNC (Founder/Principal/Lead Designer since 2009)
–DESIGN PORTFOLIO (2003-2009)
–CHINATOWN INSERT! – Design Team Leader
WRITING PORTFOLIO:
–Gaming the System: role-playing spatial and political change – Archinect, August 2016.
–Which Public?: Conflict as Catalyst – ARPA Journal, June 2014
–Identifying the Designer as Worker Essay by Peggy Deamer, Quilian Riano, and Manuel Shvartzberg on behalf of The Architecture Lobby
–PLACES JOURNAL
–Archinect.com
–Essay on #whOWNSpace for MAS Context
–Harvard GSD TransUrban Series -03/04 Valdespartera/Sarriguren (Co-Writer/Editor)
–Harvard GSD TransUrban Series 02: Solar City (Student Researcher/Designer)
–Renacer del Rio Tajo – Harvard GSD book (Student Editor/Designer)
–2030 Palette Blog
–Ecological Urbanism Blog
–trays – Harvard GSD Student Journal 2006-2009 Editor and Founder
–Architect’s Newspaper
–Baseball Stadiums in Cuba 1946-1991 (University of Florida Research Report)
DSGN AGNC Founder and Principal
Pratt Institute Interim Dean
Masters of Architecture – Harvard University | Graduate School of Design
Bachelor of Design (Summa Cum Laude) – University of Florida | School of Architecture
Quilian (pronounced: Killian) is an architectural and urban designer, researcher, writer, and educator. Quilian is the Interim 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 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, a democratic network committed to creating new forms of knowledge and knowledge production, institutions, collectivity, practice, design, and community culture.
Quilian holds a Masters of Architecture (MArch) from the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a Bachelors of Design in Architecture (BDes) with Summa Cum Laude from the University of Florida’s School of Architecture.
