White Elephant / Jimenez Lai. image © Magnus Lindqvist, Kyle D, Eberle and Kamil Krol.

Jimenez Lai, from Bureau Spectacular has announced from his Instagram feed that he will design ''a very large structure'' in Coachella  Valley Music and Arts Festival this season. Jimenez Lai stated his passion that ''I want to kiss the earth Kevin Costner style. I'm now able to say I've been on the same poster as Ice Cube, LCD Soundsystem and Guns N Roses''. Coachella, is an annual music and arts festival, will be held between April 15-17, 2016 and April 22-24, 2016 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert wih 90,000 attendees.

Collage of "Five Normal Houses". image courtesy of Bureau Spectacular

Jimenez Lai (Leader) is a faculty member at UCLA. Previously, Jimenez 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.

The Healthy House. image courtesy of Bureau Spectacular.

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 Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum as a part of the show Younger Than Jesus.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

Coachella poster. image courtesy of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 

image © Jennifer Avello for Refinery29

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