Jimenez Lai
Jimenez Lai is a faculty member at the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles. He is also the founder and leader of Bureau Spectacular, a design studio founded in 2008 and led by Jimenez Lai.
Jimenez Lai
- Name
- Jimenez Lai
- Born
- 1979 · Taichung.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- architect · comics artist
- Education
- University of Toronto
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Jimenez Lai is a faculty member at the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles. He is also the founder and leader of Bureau Spectacular, a design studio founded in 2008 and led by Jimenez Lai.
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Biography
Biography
Jimenez Lai studied at University of Toronto. Employment is recorded with University of Illinois Chicago. Work by Jimenez Lai is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Jimenez Lai
Academic career
Academic career
Jimenez Lai is a faculty member at the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles and was previously 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.
Built Work
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
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.
Identity
Identity
Jimenez Lai is recorded with the occupation comics artist. Recorded with the occupation architect. Recorded as architect and comics artist.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1979
Jimenez Lai was born on 21 March 1979.
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.
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- “Jimenez Lai”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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