2015 Jimenez Lai - All Rights Reserved.

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2 2015 Jimenez Lai - All Rights Reserved.

3 is a faculty member at UCLA and taught at University of Illinois at Chicago. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from University of Toronto. Previously, Jimenez Lai lived and worked in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Before founding Bureau Spectacular, Lai worked for various international offices, including OMA. Lai is widely exhibited and published around the world, including the MoMA-collected White Elephant. His first manifesto, Citizens of No Place, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum as a part of the show Younger Than Jesus. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale. In 2014, Lai designed thetaiwan Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architectural Biennale. In 2015, Lai organized the Treatise exhibition and publication series at the Graham Foundation, and was recently included in the Art Institute of Chicago s permanent collection. BIO & ARTIST S STATEMENT BUREAU SPECTACULAR imagines other worlds and engages the design of architecture through telling stories. Beautiful stories about character development, relationships, curiosities and attitudes; absurd stories about fake realities that invite enticing possibilities. The stories conflate design, representation, theory, criticism, history and taste into cartoon pages. These cartoon narratives swerve into the physical world through architectural installations, models and small buildings.

4 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Cave Painting VIII: White Noise from Another Past The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Chatter: Architecture Talks Back April 11, July Treatise: Why Write Alone? The Graham Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, USA Treatise: Why Write Alone? January 23, March 28, 2015 White Elephant The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA Conceptions of Space: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Architecture July 4, October 19, 2015 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & FUTURE EXHIBITIONS Township of Domestic Parts: Made in Taiwan Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice, Italy Fundamentals June 7, November 23, Chairs / Speechbuster Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, New York, USA Ideas City Festival, New Museum May 1, May 4, 2013 Three Little Worlds The Architecture Foundation, London, UK Three Little Worlds June 24, August 25, 2012 Little Monster Architecture League of New York, New York, New York, USA No Precedent: Architectural League Prize for Young Architects June 21, August 3, 2012 Phalanstery Module Materials & Applications, Los Angeles, California, USA Gravity Defiance April 1, September 1, 2008 UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS Title Forthcoming Chicago, Illinois, USA Chicago Architectural Biennial, The State of the Art of Architecture October 3, January 3, 2016 Briefcase House The National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design, Oslo, Norway Show Title Forthcoming 2015

5 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Politics of Flatness Graham Foundation 2015 Citizens of No Place Princeton Architectural Press 2012 SELECTED AWARDS Taiwan Pavilion, 2014 Venice Biennale International Competition, First Place Fundamentals 2014 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS & PUBLICITY Lisbon Architecture Triennale International Competition, First Place Close, Closer 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects International Award No Precedent 2012 SELECTED PUBLICITY Azure Magazine 5 Words from Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular March 2015 The Architectural Review Architecture with Bad Attitude March 2015 Architect Magazine Jimenez Lai s Youthquake at the Graham Foundation March 2015 Architect Magazine Architect Visits: Bureau Spectacular June 2014 Refinery 29 Studio Stalker: A Peek into this Amazing Vionary s Playground June 2013 Architect Magazine Cover Photo, Portrait 2012

6 TOWNSHIP OF DOMESTIC PARTS The Township of Domestic Parts: Made in Taiwan is a collection of nine small houses, each with a single program. This project was built with a generous grant from SinoPac bank in Taiwan and is part of their permanent collection. Scattered inside the Palazzo delle Prigioni, it forms an interior township of misfit parts. Each house embodies one domestic program, such as the House of Sleep, or the House of Social Eating. As structures not quite big enough to be architecture and too large to be furniture, the nine small houses can be defined as superfurnitures. Isolating the diagrams of part-to-whole relationship and part-to-part relationships, we condensed each domestic program into its own freestanding superfurniture with character.

7 WHITE ELEPHANT The White Elephant tumbles and changes orientation and can flip to eight different stances. What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of interior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding micro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidity/ fluidity and size/scale. The White Elephant was collected by The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2014.

8 CITIZENS OF NO PLACE Citizens of No Place is a collection of short stories on architecture and urbanism, graphically represented using manga-style storyboards. Fiction is used as a strategy to unpack thoughts about architecture. Modeled as a proto-manifesto, it is a candid chronicle of a highly critical thought process in the tradition of paper architecture (especially that of architect John Hejduk and Bernard Tschumi s Manhattan Transcript). The short stories explore many architectural problems through the unique language of the graphic novel, helping usher the next generation of architectural theory and criticism.

9 BRIEFCASE HOUSE The Briefcase House, located inside a warehouse loft of 1400 sf with no partition is a house within a house. The design engages two architectural issues: inside/outside and S/XL. It compacts the material possessions of the subject into one oversized briefcase - so large that the subject sleeps inside of it. The residual gap outside of the Briefcase House to the limits of the warehouse loft can be considered a super wall-cavity and rendered as blackened thick wall in an architectural plan. Conversely, when the subject occupies the wall-cavity for other activities, the house can be considered a solid obstruction.

10 CONTACT w e m jomjai@jainjai.com & jaitip@jainjai.com &