2012.04.20 / Jimenez Lai wins the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects.
2012.04.20 / Sociopaths has been published in Thresholds 40, thanks to the patience, editorial work and invitation of Jonathan Crisman.
2012.04.18 / "Born Again Formalist"... Jimenez Lai is on thesis reviews at University of Toronto with Mason White, Rodolphe el-Khourey, Christos Marcopoulos, Brian Boigon, An Te Liu.
2012.04.13 / Jimenez Lai roundtables with Ika Knezevic, Jorg Becker, Patricia Olynyk and David Hartt at the Inland Symposium at Washington University.
2012.03.29 / Jimenez Lai opens the installation Citizens of No Place in the basement vault inside the Wolworth building in New York, entertaining players and guests from the RED/READ benefit event at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. This event honors Barbara Kreuger and Bernard Tschumi. Thank you to Evan Franch, Charles Renfro and the fine work of Gjorgi Shkurti, staff and intern of Storefront.
2012.03.19 / Jimenez Lai is on final reviews at UCLA with Jason Payne, Michael Osman, Georgina Huljich, Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee, Greg Lynn and Neil Denari.
2012.02.29 / The tour continues with a lecture at Columbia University, GSAPP . Thanks to the invitation of Cristina Goberna.
2012.02.28 / Jimenez Lai delivers a lecture at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Thanks to Matt Shaw.
2012.02.15 / White Elephant is published in the Korean magazine BOB.
2012.02.06 / Zeitgeist is Immortal is in CLOG issue 2. Thanks to Human Wu, Kyle May and Julia van den Hout.
2012.01.28 / The Associates opens in Toronto, with our piece Cartoon Shelves in the group show. Thanks to the invitation of Joy Charbonneau.
2012.01.20 / Jimenez Lai participates in the Whither Installation symposium in the Practice Panel with Ben Ball, Elena Manfredini, Nick Gelpi and Monica Ponce de Leon. It was moderated by Ben Smith and organized by John McMorrough. Watch this lecture online.
2012.01.15 / Jimenez Lai is on the cover of Arqa Magazine from Portugal for an issue on the topic of fiction.
2012.01.06 / Archinect, ArchDaily, BLDGBLOG, Evolo, Frame Magazine... White Elephant is all over the interwebs.
2011.12.30 / Jimenez Lai gives a lecture entirely in Mandarin at Tamkang University. Thank you Jr Gang Chi for the invitation.
2011.12.10 / Final reviews at UIUC with Grant Gibson, Gale Fulton, Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer.
2011.11.23 / Thanksgiving - Istanbul style. Jimenez Lai makes a presentation and spends Thanksgiving in Turkey. Nights of debauchery with Aurel von Richthofen, Ishtiaq Raffiudin, Speedism and Francois Roche.
2011.11.14 / New project unvailed - Thick Frames opened in Primitive Delights, an all faculty show at UIC school of Architecture. Organized by Grant Gibson and moderated by Bob Somol.
2011.10.14 / Jimenez Lai roundtables with Juan Rois for the Argentinian magazine Plot.
2011.10.12 / Jimenez Lai participates in Buenos Aires Biennial XIII
2011.10.03 / Jimenez Lai gives a lecture at Kent State University, thanks to the invite of Kathryn Strand.
2011.09.30 / Fiefdom of Podmajersky open-house. White Elephant is in the house.
2011.08.17 / Andrew Akins and Jimenez Lai in Kentucky, truck and trailer style on a rescue mission for the White Elephant (even running over a hipster bike)
2011.08.07 / Bureau Spectacular waves tearful farewell to summer camp members Zack Morrison, Trudy Watt and Katherine Ranieri
2011.08.07 / Jimenez Lai speaks at the TEDx event TEDx25thWard, with Andrew Kovacs, Ania Jaworska, Grant Gibson, Thomas Kelley and Thom Moran. Event was led and organized by Bryn Namavari.
2011.07.25 / Signed, sealed and sent.
2011.07.20 / The Bureau Spectacular website is rebooted, thanks to the fine works of Katherine Ranieri.
2011.07.19 / Jimenez Lai presented six short stories at RAW Humor, organized by Young Architects Forum of Chicago. Thank you for the invitation Ania Jaworska and Darya Minosyants.
2011.07.07 / Jimenez Lai presented a paper at the Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes dessinees and Comics 2011 in Manchester, UK.
2011.06.27 / Bureau Spectacular is now five with Katherine Ranieri and rejoined by Andrew Akins.
2011.06.24 / Phalanstery Module is all over the interwebs because of architizer.
2011.06.13 / Jimenez Lai was on final reviews with Kyle Reynolds at the School of Art Institute Chicago, thanks to the invitation of Ben Nicholson.
2011.06.06 / To a spectacular summer with new members Trudy Watt and Zack Morrison.
2011.06.01 / Eden, also known as Primitives, has been published in Log 22. Thank you Michael Meredith.
2011.05.11 / How Cool Is Your Stool?
2011.05.10 / Thank you to Paul Preissner for the invitation to How Chicago Are You.
2011.04.25 / Ducks Win. Thank you for being on this review - Andrew Kovacs, James Tate, Ania Jaworska and Thomas Kelley.
2011.04.09 / The super secret event, Chicago Tapes II, happened at the Graham Foundation. Jimenez Lai was at the round table discussion, graced by the presence of Stanley Tigerman, Niel Denari, Ben Nicholson, Sam Jacob, Andy Zago, Mark Linder, Paul Preissner, Alex Lehnerer and the rest of the presenters for this amazing moment. Thank you to Bob Somol for organizing this event and the invitation.
2011.03.31 / The Graham Foundation has awarded Jimenez Lai with a grant towards the project Citizens of No Place. Slated to be published in 2012, we are also happy to announce that this project will be printed by Princeton Architectural Press.
2011.03.11 / White Elephant (privately soft) opened at Land of Tomorrow in Louisville, KY.
2011.02.26 / Jimenez Lai presented at the Manifesto Series at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, thanks to Lydia Kalipoliti and Eva Franch.
2011.02.03 / Citizens of No Place under spotlights with Archi-Zine!
2011.02.01 / Push it was published by the December issue of the Argentinian architectural journal NOTAS CPAU.
2011.01.20 / Candide - Journal for Architectural Knowledge NO. 03 published On Types of Seductive Robustness by Jimenez Lai. A big thank you to Susanne Schindler.
2010.12.13 / Review season coming to an end. The Bureau were on non-stop reviews, including the maiden voyages of Cyrus Penarroyo and Andrew Akins.
2010.12.08 / The Graduate Studio Two Buildings in The Future taught by Jeffrey Kipnis and Jimenez Lai comes to an end. Thank you to the demimondes. We were honoured by the presence of Andy Zago, Jose Oubrerie, Hernan Diaz Alonzo, Florencia Pita and Greg Lynn.
2010.11.13 / Bureau Spectacular is in Kentucky engaging full on construction.
2010.11.10 / ArchDaily, Treehugger, Designboom, SpaceInvading and among others - The Briefcase House is all over the interwebs faster than the speed of light.
2010.11.05 / The Briefcase House, along with the story Obsession Accelerator, were showcased by our friends at archinect. (thank you Paul Petrunia)
2010.11.05 / Envisioning Organization conference in Ohio State University, organized by Karen Lewis, featured Jimenez Lai, session moderated by John McMorrough.
2010.11.04 / Cyrus Penarroyo won Juror's Citation and Thomas Kelley was a finalist in the 36th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition.
2010.11.01 / construction begins
2010.10.29 / Phalanstery Module was published in Staging Space: Scenic Interior and Spatial Experiences, a Gestalten Publication.
2010.10.16 / Jimenez Lai participatedin the Alternative Press Expo with Gwenaëlle Gobé by Comic Con in San Francisco!
2010.10.13 / Jimenez Lai traveled to Lisbon, PT to participate in Once Upon a Place: The First International Conference on Architecture and Fiction. Thanks to Susana Oliveira and Pedro Gadanho. It was an amazing time.
2010.10.08 / Jimenez Lai presented Point Clouds at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. at the INPUT_OUTPUT conference.
2010.10.01 / I Don't Want No Retro Spective opened at Bureau Spectacular, featuring:Golden Bullets, Briefcase House and new paintings by Jimenez Lai. Also Thomas Kelley's +SIZE.
2010.09.24 / The new Argentinean magazine PLOT published The Future Archaeologist by Jimenez Lai (it's super fancy, thanks Florencia Rodriguez)
2010.09.24 / Obstruction / A New Healthy Body was published in Pidgin issue #9, thanks to Enrique Ramirez.
2010.09.06 / Politics of Quality: Plan v Section was published in Conditions Magazine Issue #5/6
2010.07.31 / Jimenez Lai joined Thom Moran at National Chung Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan and saw the projects from the summer workshop ran by Thom Moran, Rosalyne Shieh, Brian McGrath and the fine faculty from NCKU and Chu Hai College from Hong Kong. (nice to see you too Lisa)
2010.07.01 / Jimenez Lai has been accepted to deliver a presentation at Once Upon a Place: The First International Conference on Architecture and Fiction, Oct 12-14 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal.
2010.07.01 / The Future Archaeologist published in Beyond Magazine issue 03, edited by Pedro Gadanho.
2010.06.09 / Citizens of No Place was included in De Zines exhibition in Madrid, ES.
2010.06.07 / Bureau Spectacular rebooted.
2010.06.02 / Jimenez Lai delivered a presentation at Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, NL, introduced by Santiago del Hierro.
2010.05.12 / Jimenez Lai was on the thesis review at Cooper Union in New York, NY.
2010.05.07 / Cyrus Penarroyo wins the best undergraduate project award at the Year End Show in UIC.
2010.04.30 / Thank you Bob Somol, Bob McAnulty, Andrew Kovacs, Thomas Kelley, Kyle Reynolds, Jimmy Lowder, Brian Tabolt, Stewart Hicks and Kyle Miller for being a part of our final review for the option studio Elephant in the Room at UIC.
2010.04.28 / We were interviewed by grit-tv in New York, NY.
2010.04.17 / Jimenez Lai was on the final reviews at University of Kentucky for Kyle Miller.
2010.04.12 / Jimenez Lai guest lectured on representation at Michael Meredith's studio at the GSD.
2010.04.10 / Jimenez Lai exhibited a solo show at superfront in New York, NY.
2010.04.09 / Jimenez Lai joins Mimi Zeiger for the panel discussion A Few Zines in Chicago.
2010.04.07 / The exhibition, Specatcular Fantasy opened at UIC.
2010.03.26 / Jimenez Lai delivered a presentation at TU Delft in Delft, NL, introduced by Lara Schrijver.
2010.03.05 / Thank you to JDS Architects for making us part of their newswire.
2010.03.05 / Bureau Specatcular participated in a group exhibition with X-Atelier at Land of Tomorrow in Lexington, Kentucky.
2010.03.02 / Too much profanity was used by Jimenez at Pecha Kucha Chicago13
2010.02.13 / Jimenez Lai delivered a presentation at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, DK.
2010.02.12 / The Laundry Man (a.k.a. Drifting Cities of a Past) was published by Conditions Magazine, party in Copenhagen, DK.
2010.01.15 / We were covered by Julia Ingalls from FORTH Magazine.
2009.12.27 / Jimenez Lai was on reviews in Taipei, Taiwan at Tamkang University for Jr-Gang Chi.
2009.12.19 / Jimenez Lai was on reviews in Ann Arbor, MI at U of Michigan for Thom Moran, with James Tate and Rustam Mehta.
2009.12.04 / Point Cloiuds was published in MAS CONTEXT: Living, a thank you to Iker Gil
2009.11.05 / Jimenez Lai participated in the conference Constructing Knowledge at the RWTH in Aachen, Germany.
2009.10.29 / Jimenez Lai went to Tokyo to present the City of Urban Robotz, it was a pleasure to meet Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma.
2009.10.17 / Jimenez Lai joined Gwenaëlle Gobé in the Alternative Press Expo by Comic Con in San Francisco!
2009.09.16 / Phalanstery Module was published in Interactive Architecture by Michael Fox and Miles Kemp.
2009.09.08 / Winners announced: Central Glass International Design Competition selected 7 projects to advance to round two in a total of 744 entries including City of Urban Robotz. Jimenez Lai will be in Tokyo on October 31 to present to a jury that includes Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma.
2009.07.29 / Jimenez Lai travelled to Argentina and gave lectures titled Hypothetical Scenarios and Alternate Conditions in Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, and Universidad Abierta Intermericana in Rosario, introduced by Juan Rois.
2009.06.29 / Thank you Ruairi Glynn for doing a piece on us at www.interactivearchitecture.org
2009.06.19 / Thank you to www.archinect.com and Mimi Zeiger for making us a part of their newswire.
2009.06.16 / Bureau Spectacular participated in the Guerilla Truck Show in Chicago featuring new work Fluctuating Void. Unfortunately the project was an epic fail, quite miserably.
2009.06.05 / Jimenez Lai gave a presentation for Object Design League (Lisa Smith+Caroline Linder) in Chicago.
2009.04.01 / Citizens of No Place (draft II) was archived at the New Museum in New York City with the Younger Than Jesus show.
2009.03.07 / Jimenez Lai made new drawings for Out of Water exhibit in Toronto (Aziza Chaouni + Liat Margolis)
2009.03.01 / Vertical Urbanism was published in 306090: Dimensions. A thank you to Jonathan D. Soloman.
2009.02.16 / Jimenez Lai gave a lecture entitled: Why I Lie about Architecture at Texas A&M, introduced by Gabriel Esquivel.
2009.01.07 / Point Clouds opened at the Extension Gallery in Chicago.
2009.01.06 / Citizens of No Place (draft II) was exhibited at Studio X / C-Lab in New York by Mimi Zeiger's exhibition A Few Zines.
2009.01.01/ Phalanstery Module was published in Wallpaper* Magazine.