Minor Infrastructures

Jesse LeCavalier uses the tools of urban design and architecture to research, theorize, and speculate about infrastructure and logistics. 

He is the author of The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and co-author of Closer to Things: Drawing Practice as Spatial Research (Lars Müller Publishers, forthcoming 2026). His design work has been recognized by the Sudbury 2050 urban design competition, the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the Oslo Triennale, and the Seoul Biennale. His research and writing have appeared in Cabinet, e-flux, Public Culture, Places, Art Papers, Thresholds, and Harvard Design Magazine. 

LeCavalier is associate professor of architecture at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning where he directs the NYC-based Master of Science in Advanced Urban Design (MSAUD). From 2019-2021, he was inaugural director of the PhD program in Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto. He was Daniel Rose Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture (2017–19) and the 2010–11 Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan. LeCavalier was the recipient of the 2015 New Faculty Teaching Award from the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Talk by Jesse LeCavalier
UA 5th Year Eminent Analyst Lecture
Presented by Undergraduate Architecture

This event is open to the public and will be recorded.