Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson is an architectural designer and photographer based in Toronto, Ontario and Victoria, British Columbia. His architectural work, which focuses on tactical responses to existing conditions, has been featured in The Globe and Mail and Canadian Architect, and published in MAS Context; he is currently designing two residential projects. His photographic work, which explores the synthetic implications of built form, has been exhibited at Gallery TPW, convenience, and the Gladstone Hotel, and has been published extensively. Jesse also teaches undergraduate studio courses in the First Year, Environmental Design and Material Art and Design programs at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Jesse is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (B.A.Sc., Civil Enginering, 2004) and the University of Toronto (M.Arch., 2009). He also studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. With Luke Stern, Jesse was the 2008/2009 Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto, which enabled him to study Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Automatic projects in detail, and led to two exhibitions: Automatic, which recreated the Automatic constructional system, and Usonia Road, which juxtaposed photographs of Usonian architecture with neighboring vernacular buildings.