Bureau Spectacular is an operation of architectural affairs based in Chicago that was founded in 2008. The studio 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 illustrated pages. These illustrated narratives swerve into the physical world through architectural installations, models and small buildings.
Jimenez Lai is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and founder of Bureau Spectacular. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto. Previously, 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. His first manifesto, Citizens of No Place, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. In 2013, Lai won the Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale and will be representing Taiwan for the 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale.
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