Michael Jefferson

Lecturer

Department

Architecture

Contact

151 E. Sibley Hall
mnj23@cornell.edu

Academic Research Areas

Architectural design
Architectural technology
Digital media
Drawing
Technology and art
Visual representation

Michael Jefferson is the coprincipal of Jefferson Lettieri Office (JE-LE).

Previously, Jefferson held appointments at The Cooper Union, Penn State University, the University of Michigan, City College of New York, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where he was the 2019–20 Innovation in Design Fellow. In 2019, Jefferson received a residency fellowship at MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His work has been exhibited in New York City, Boston, and Ithaca, and published in the Cornell Journal for Architecture, OfficeUS: Manual, Interiors, The Plan Journal, and Project. Prior to founding Jefferson Lettieri Office, Jefferson practiced at Adjaye Associates, CODA, Studio SUMO, and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

Jefferson holds a Master of Architecture from Cornell University (2012).

Academic Research Areas

Architectural design
Architectural technology
Digital media
Drawing
Technology and art
Visual representation

Two adjacently connected, multicolored walls. Each wall has a square window.

Michael Jefferson, False Walls (2020).

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Innovation Design Fellowship

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
2019–20
MacDowell Fellow

Peterborough, NH
2019
Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship

Cornell AAP Department of Architecture
2013

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

Still Processing

Innovation in Design Fellowship lecture, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Milwaukee, WI.
Living With It

Lecture and panel discussion in “AAction: Architectural Education for Climate Emergency,” moderated by AAction, Chicago Architecture Biennial: And Other Such Stories, Chicago, IL, November 2019.
Disciplined Objects

Project presentation and panel discussion in “ACSA 2017: Articulating Architecture’ Core in the Post-Digital Era,” 107th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019.