Jimenez Lai is a faculty member at the

USC School of Architecture The USC School of Architecture is the architecture school at the University of Southern California. Located in Los Angeles, California, it is one of the university's twenty-two professional schools, offering both undergraduate and graduate degr ...

in Los Angeles. He is also the founder and leader of Bureau Spectacular, a design studio founded in 2008 and led by Jimenez Lai.

Academic career

Jimenez Lai is a faculty member at the

in Los Angeles and was previously a faculty member at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

. Lai previously held the LeFevre Fellowship at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

in 2007 and the Howarth-Wright Fellowship at

Taliesin (studio) Taliesin ( ; sometimes known as Taliesin East, Taliesin Spring Green, or Taliesin North after 1937) is a house-studio complex located south of the village of Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States. Developed and occupied by American architect ...

Taliesin West Taliesin West ( ) is a studio and home developed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Named after Wright's Taliesin studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin, Taliesin West was Wright's winter home and st ...

. He was an assistant professor at

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

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 ''306090'' was an independent architecture journal and book series produced from 2002 to 2013 by nonprofit arts stewardship 306090, Inc., and distributed by Princeton Architectural Press. 306090 published nine multi-authored thematic journal volume ...

/ 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 Princeton Architectural Press (now PA Press) is a division of Chronicle Books. Founded by Kevin Lippert in 1981 in Princeton, NJ, PA Press has been a leading publisher of books on architecture, design, and visual culture for over forty years, ...

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Built Work

Tower of Twelve Stories
Installation /

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/ Coachella, CA. 2016
White Elephant (Privately Soft)
Installation / Land of Tomorrow (LoT) / Louisville, KY. 2011
The Briefcase House
Super Furniture / Chicago, IL. 2010.

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 websiteBUREAU SPECTACULAR/Jimenez Lai Architizer PageCitizens of No Place
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