Retail, Architecture, and Contemporary Public Infrastructures

GSAPP Conversations

Jesse LeCavalier in Conversation with Emma Macdonald. In episode #75, Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices (MSCCCP) student Emma Macdonald speaks with architect Jesse LeCavalier about his research around the global emergence of new public infrastructures. Jesse LeCavalier is the author of The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment and associate professor of architecture at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto. He works to engage the public on new types of contemporary infrastructure and logistics by shedding light on their underlying meanings, interrelations, and purposes. This interview was conducted prior to his lecture at the school on September 16, 2019.