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Bureau Spectacular imagines other worlds and engages design through telling stories. Beautiful stories about character development, relationships, curiosities and attitudes; absurd stories about impossible realities that invite enticing possibilities. The stories conflate design, representation, theory, criticism, history and taste into cartoon pages. These cartoon narratives swerve into the physical world through architectural installations, designed objects, interiors, and the edifice.

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Bureau Spectacular is a group of individuals who engage culture through the contemplation of art, architectural theory, history, politics, sociology, linguistics, mathematics, graphic design, technology, and graphic novels. We often find ourselves at the crossroads of all disciplines, yet comfortably embracing the healthy intersections between the many human discourses.
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Jimenez Lai loves art and architecture. Before Bureau Spectacular, Lai lived in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Lai is widely exhibited and published around the world, including the MoMA-collected White Elephant. His first book, 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 Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale, and the 2017 Designer of the Future Award at Art Basel. In 2014, Lai represented Taiwan at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2015, Lai organized the Treatise exhibition and publication series at the Graham Foundation. Lai's work has been collected by MoMA, SFMOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA.
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Jimenez Lai
Kaveh Arbab, Mo Nazmy, Rushabh Parekh, Mark Talbot, Kevin Hayes, Matt van der Ploeg, Jasper Reyes , Josh Lowrance, Nick Stoever, Nick Krause, Thomas Kelley, Cyrus Penarroyo, Andrew Akins, Sophie Kohn, Trudy Watt , Zack Morrison, Katherine Ranieri, Senaid Salcin, Matthew Messner, Matthew Schneider, John Donoghue, Aaron Spiering, Peeraya Suphasidh, Allison Reynolds, Alex Culler, Frank Gossage, Felipe Oropeza Jr, Manon Brissaud-Frenk, Eugenia Macchia, Shun-Ping Liu, Jacob Waas, Ann Lok Lui, Dirk van der Meij, Kevin Pazik, Joanna Grant, Jeffrey Anderson, Ana Moriyon, Ingui Ryu, Ed Crooks, Terrence Hector, Jacob Comerci, Jesse Hammer, Eric Hsu, Pauline Chen, May Wang, Heidi Alexander, Brian Daugherty, Asli Tusavul, Roojiar Sadeghilalabadi, Steve Martinez, Tatiana Southey-Bassols, Mark Kamish, Isaac Howell, Man-Yan Lam, Sohun Kang, Juan Carlos Villarreal, Poyao Shih. Eric Lawler, Lucas Budgett, Thinh Nguyen, Dinara Vasilevskaia, Clara Pugsley, Sarah Wagner, Jeffrey Liu, Lena Kohl, Jake Parkin, Jade Narrido, Veronica Smith, Tanvi Rao, Sharif Anous, Sam Pladet, Abby Dorrell, Lauren Mitchell, Yushan Menn, Kyoung Eun Park, Georgia Pogas, Mark Kamish, Ted Zhang, Kristoffer Tjerrild, Jiajia Shi, David Musa, Michael DePrez, Ilayda Kal, Cullen Fu, Xavier Ramirez, Kabir Sahni, Ekin Bilal, Ana Antoniā€¦
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