Jimenez Lai and his favourite things
AD finds out more about the founder of Bureau Spectacular and his partner, Joanna Grant
Lecturer Jimenez Lai is widely exhibited and published around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lai has won several awards, designed the Taiwan Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architectural Biennale, and constructed a 52' tall structure at the 2016 Coachella Valley Music Festival.
Jimenez Lai is a faculty member of UCLA. The Los Angeles-based architect is a storyteller who blurs the boundaries between design, art, architecture, sociology, and technology, imagining other worlds and design through the stories he tells.
Jimenez is also the recipient of The Swarovski Designers of the Future Award 2017—along with Tokyo-based Takt Project and Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel—which honours promising young designers and studios who epitomise the new directions taking form in design. The trio collaborated on an exhibition for the Swarovski installation at Design Miami/Basel 2017.
Lai shares his favorite style icon, song, movie, and so much more!
— AD Staff, Jul. 5, 2017
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