Quilian Riano

Quilian Riano is an architectural and urban designer and the assistant dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, N.Y. Previously, he served as the associate director of Kent State University's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. 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; and an initiator and core member of Dark Matter University. He holds a bachelor's of design in architecture from the University of Florida and an M.Arch. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.