Alican Taylan

Alican Taylan is an architect, engineer, and Ph.D. student in the History of Architecture and Urban Development. From 2018 to 2022, he was a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute’s graduate architecture program. Taylan contributed to various exhibitions, including cocurating Confronting Carbon Form (2023) at The Cooper Union, which explored innovative disciplinary approaches to addressing environmental concerns in architecture. He was a cocurator of the exhibition Aesthetics of Prosthetics (2019) at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture. In addition, Taylan has contributed to the 2018 Turkish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Grants from the Architectural League, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Graham Foundation, the Institute for European Studies, the Einaudi Center at Cornell University, and the Pratt Institute supported his work. Taylan’s writing and design work has been featured in various journals and periodicals, such as The Architect’s Newspaper, Log, Metropolis Magazine, Mimar.ist, NYRA, and Plat. His committee members are Esra Akcan (architecture), María González Pendás (architecture), and Aaron Sachs (history).