Jimenez Lai

Clinical Assistant Professor

jlai79@uic.edu

MArch, University of Toronto
BA, University of Toronto

Jimenez Lai is currently clinical assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. Previously, Lai has lived and worked in a desert shelter at Taliesin, AZ, and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam, NL. Lai has received mentions in competitions in Japan, Europe and the US. Professionally, Lai has worked for Michael Meredith, REX, OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam and New York. In February 2006, his Spaceship project was featured on archinect.com and in 2007 he was a recipient of the LeFevre Fellowship. Lai has been invited to review panels in University of Toronto, SCI-Arc, and Syracuse University. In April 2008 his project "Phalanstery Module" opened at Materials & Applications in Los Angeles.