Jesse L. McCormick
Visiting Lecturer in Architecture
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Architecture
Biography:
Jesse McCormick is a New York–based designer and educator. He has taught at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Vassar College, Syracuse University, and Columbia University. He is the founder of Land Lab at the J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures at CCNY; cofounder of the Abundance Workshop Research Collective; and has held research and design positions at, among others, Office for Political Innovation, Andrés Jaque; One Architecture and Urbanism; and Jesse Lecavalier R+D. He was also a member of the curatorial team for the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial and has contributed to Oslo Architecture Triennale and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. He is the recipient of a Spitzer Fellowship, CCNY; research fellowship, Fundacion Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, Leon, Spain; several prizes and fellowships from Columbia; and was a 2018 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program finalist. Recent publications include “Social Housing/Social Work: The Architecture of the Southern Door Community Land Trust,” Platform (forthcoming); and “Toxic Assets: Seeing Like a Land Bank,” Room 1000, University of California at Berkeley graduate journal.BA, English, literature, and rhetoric, and BA, art history, SUNY Binghamton; MA, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. At Bard: spring 2024.