He was a Moderator of the Workshop “Metropolitan Scale” at the 5th Holcim Forum 2016 “Infrastructure Space” held in Detroit, USA.

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 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.

Jesse LeCavalier was previously an Associate Professor in the John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design at the University of Toronto, Canada and Daniel Rose Visiting Assistant Professor in Urban Studies at the School of Architecture, Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA where he teaches courses in Architectural Design and Landscapes of Fulfilment: Architecture & Urbanism in Contemporary Logistics.

He was the recipient of the New Faculty Teaching Award from the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) (2015) and was the Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan (2010-11). He was a Poiesis Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and a Senior Researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory as part of the Singapore-ETH Center for Global Environmental Sustainability.

Jesse LeCavalier holds a Doctor of Science from the ETH Zurich, a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.