Jimenez Lai

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Jimenez Lai was a faculty member of UCLA. He is also the founder and leader of Bureau Spectacular, a design studio founded in 2008 and led by Jimenez Lai and his partner, Joanna Grant.

Academic career[]

Jimenez Lai was a faculty member at UCLA. Lai previously held the LeFevre Fellowship at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University in 2007 and the Howarth-Wright Fellowship at Taliesin (studio)/Taliesin West. He was an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Published works[]

• "Primitives". Log/Issue 22.
• "On Types of Seductive Robustness". Candide / Issue 3.
• "Obstruction: A New Healthy Body". Pidgin / Issue 9.
• "The Future Archaeologist". PLOT / Issue 1
• "Plan v Section". Conditions / Issue 5+6
• "The Future Archaeologist". Beyond Magazine / Issue 3
• "Big Box Robotz". Journal of American Institute of Architecture Students / Spring 2010
• "Laundry Man". Conditions / Issue 3
• "Point Clouds". MAS Context / Issue 4
• "Vertical Urbanism". 306090 / Issue 12

Jimenez Lai's monograph, Citizens of no place : an architectural graphic novel supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and Princeton Architectural Press.^[1]

Built Work[]

• Tower of Twelve Stories Installation / Coachella Valley Music Festival / Coachella, CA. 2016
• White Elephant (Privately Soft) Installation / Land of Tomorrow (LoT) / Louisville, KY. 2011
• The Briefcase House Super Furniture / Chicago, IL. 2010.
• Point Clouds Installation / Extension Gallery / Chicago, IL. 2009.
• Phalanstery Module Installation / Materials & Applications / Los Angeles, CA. 2008

Videos[]

• Point Clouds Installation in Extension Gallery, 2009. Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
• Phalanstery Module for Materials & Applications 2008.
• Jimenez Lai at Pecha Kucha 2010.

References[]

External links[]

• BUREAU SPECTACULAR Official website
• BUREAU SPECTACULAR/Jimenez Lai Architizer Page
• Citizens of No Place