stockholm SWEDEN

Jimenez Lai is an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and Leader of Bureau Spectacular.

lecture: Jimenez LAI, “Cartoonish Worlds” with respondent Daniel NORELL.
Draw Point Talk lecture series.
Thursday, 10/24
6.00 p.m. / The KTH School of Architecture
Östermalmsgatan 26
114 26 Stockholm, Sweden

* photo © Jimenez LAI.

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lexington KENTUCKY

On Friday, September 28, Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular, will give a lecture titled “BS” in which he will discuss the relationship between fiction, theory, representation, installation, and buildings. Jimenez Lai is an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and Leader of Bureau Spectacular. 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. . . .

jimenez LAI, “BS”
Friday, 09/28
5.00 pm / 209 Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
Lexington, KY 40506

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chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jimenez LAI: The White Elephant is roughly 10’x10’x10’. It has three basic premises:
A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house.
An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualification plans and sections.
An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

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.

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