Diane Rhyu Taylor explores the relationships between culture, place, and community through the lens of architecture and the built environment.
Diane's work examines the built environment as a site of meaning-making, memory, and imagination. She is interested in creating multiple ways of seeing and interpreting the relationship between people, place, and the built environment.
She is Director of Public Programs at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where she develops interdisciplinary programs connecting architecture, landscape, cities, and material culture. She directs the Vincent Scully Prize and Spotlight on Design lecture series along with new programs that bring practitioners, scholars, and broader publics into conversation.
Diane's practice has spanned museums and cultural institutions, nonprofit organizations, multilateral agencies, and architectural practice across Korea, France, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the United States. She serves on the Board of Dupont Underground, an independent arts organization in D.C., and has been a guest curator at the Brihatta Art Foundation in Dhaka and visiting faculty at the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements.
Previously, she served as Architectural Advisor to the United Nations World Food Programme in Bangladesh, where she initiated and led the Resilient Landscape program with architect Marina Tabassum and landscape architect Khondaker Hasibul Kabir.
Diane holds a master’s in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and degrees in Architectural History and International Relations from Brown University.
