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Jimenez Lai, founder of Chicago-based Bureau Spectacular has been selected as winner of the first Lisbon Triennale Millennium BCP Début Award. The award, presented by Millennium BCP president Fernando Nogueira, distinguishes a young architect or studio under 35 on outstanding work, development of original design thinking and the pursuit of critical ideas with a monetary prize of €5,000.
Jimenez Lai was chosen from 180 candidates for the “originality and range of his body of work, whose uncompromising and thought-provoking approach to formalism lends it an exploratory vein that,” in the words of the jury, “is crucial to the future of architecture.”
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The international jury of the Début Award was formed by:
- Eva Franch I Gilabert (ES), founder of OOAA and Director of Storefront for
- Art and Architecture
- Ou Ning (CN), activist, curator, editor, artist and urban researcher
- Tatiana Bilbao (MX), founder of studio Tatiana Bilbao S.C.
- Beatrice Galilee (UK), chief curator of Close, Closer
- Diogo Seixa Lopes (PT), founder of studio Barbas Lopes, Arquitectos