Diane Rhyu Taylor is a cultural practitioner and public educator exploring the intersection of culture, place, and communities through the lens of architecture and the built environment.
Diane is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner whose work examines the built environment as a site of cultural meaning, public memory, and civic imagination. Through cultural programming, writing, and community design practice, she creates spaces for architectural ideas to be made more accessible. Her work spans cultural institutions, nonprofit organizations, multilateral agencies, and architectural practice across Korea, France, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the United States.
Diane holds a master’s in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and studied Architectural History and International Relations at Brown University. She served as the Architectural Advisor to the United Nations World Food Programme in Bangladesh and has taught at the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes, and Settlements. She is the Director of Public Programs at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where she leads public humanities programs, convenings, lecture series, and directs the Vincent Scully Prize. She is committed to supporting diverse communities of artists and designers, and serves on the Board of the Dupont Underground, an independent arts organization transforming public space in D.C.
