KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jimenez Lai 


TOPIC:  "Narratives in Architecture"

1.  Architectural drawings as journalism
2.  Communication of architecture as visual language
3.  The part-to-whole relationship of architecture as compositions
4.  Conventions of architectural drawings as quotations
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BIOGRAPHY

Jimenez Lai 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, 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Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum as a part of the show Younger Than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.

For more information visit Jimenez at www.bureau-spectacular.net 

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