On Wednesday, April 1 at 6pm, I will be delivering a lecture at SCI-Arc titled A Book of Monsters.
I look forward to sharing this work, and the conversations ahead.
Please come if you’re able to join.
#sciarc #losangeles #bureauspectacular #bookofmonsters
Jimenez Lai, interviewed for Scaffold* Volume 2 (pp. 222-223). On cities, building ideologies, and archaeologists from the future.
Now available in PDF form at https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/scaffold/article/view/46368
The 2025 FRS assignment is up until 11/23 at @uscarchitecture@uscgradarchitecture . Congrats to all the students for recently completing the three-week design-build charrette. Taught by @eekstudio@andytku@0super . CAs Alexandra Dagnino and Dunia Faraj. #fullresolutionstudies #uscarchitecture
Happy to be a part of the exhibition “Section as Cosmogram”, organized by professor David Salomon. This drawing, a section of the Outcasts From the Underground, will be on view at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College. A reception in the gallery will be held on Thursday, September 4, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. The show will run until October 1.
The logic of a section is the layering of stencils. The architectural cut, an absolute and impenetrable plane, is a water-proof layer. The planes behind the cut are in themselves a hierarchy of elevation.
This structure is an upside down monster, performing the body posture of contrapposto. Septic tanks are designed to contain fluids, hence the tapered walls. However, when the tanks are rotated at 90 degrees, the tapered walls become diagonal lines that structurally turn the monster where the body language is one of slouch, slump, stoop, hunch, loll, sag, and droop.
Outcasts From the Underground is an outdoor installation at Art Omi, a landscape dotted with many outdoor sculptures. This project was curated by Julia Van Den Hout. It could not have been possible without Nous Engineering.
This project is a stack of industry-standard septic tanks, catch basins, dry wells, basement staircases, frost posts, and other ready-made precast concrete products born to be buried underground. Using the sales catalog from Keeler Precast Concrete, a local company fifteen minutes away, we stacked the objects into an upright monster standing at 30 ft. At Keeler Precast Concrete, most products are built to be buried. Death, waste, seepage, and other matters below ground - the precast parts are the cast of outcast characters we revive back into life.
Ants of the Prairie, Ibañez Kim, Jose Ibarra, Freda Kolatan, NEMESTUDIO, James Wines, Smout Allen, NaJa & deOstros, Ciro Najle, and many more amazing contributors in this exhibition. Wish I could be there. Thank you again for including us, Prof Salomon!
#bureauspectacular #section #drawing #stencil #ithaca #ithacacollege #keelerconcrete
