News
3/2024 Anda and Jenny’s paper “Constructing Commonality: Autoethnography in Architectural Pedagogy and Practice” 112th ACSA, Vancouver
3/2024 Anda in dialogue with Felecia Davis for Barnard Norma Merrick Sklarek event, New York, NY
2/2024 Bay State Cohousing nominated for Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, for both Main and Emerge categories
2/2024 Jenny gives public lecture at Virginia Tech School of Architecture
2/2024 Jenny lectures in “_positions” series, organized by Grace La, Chair of Architecture Dept., Harvard GSD
Spring 2024 Jenny coordinates the GSD Architecture Core Housing Studios, re-purposing an 80’s office park in Chelsea, MA
Fall 2023 Anda teaches Vertical Integrated studio at Princeton SOA, “Shoulder to Shoulder”
11/2023 “French 2D,” Architectural Review: Beginnings + Emerging Awards, Issue 1506: Elise Limon, November 2023
11/2023 Architectural Review Emerging Awards Finalist
11/2023 “New Comforts Await,” Domus Issue 1084: Jenny French, November 2023
08/2023 “Living Together,” The Architect’s Newspaper cover story: James McCown, August 2023
06/2023 “Bay State Cohousing,” Feature in Architect Magazine: Madeline Bilis, June 2023 Issue
06/2023 “A Sherbet-Colored Experiment in Cohousing Outside of Boston,” Bloomberg Citylab:, Alexandra Lange, June 10, 2023
04/2023 Anda and Jenny are the Green Honors Chairs at TCU, with public lecture and exhibition incorporating Dinner Cozy, and student workshops
4/2023 Anda on panel for Building Practice (Miller and Hunker) book launch event, New York, NY
02/2023 French 2D gives a public lecture at UIC, Chicago
02/2023 Anda returns to teaching as Visiting Lecturer at Princeton School of Architecture
09/2022 French 2D show at UMass Amherst “House Clothes: Experiments in Housing and Textiles” Opens
01/2022 Anda joins MIT Architecture Faculty as a Visiting Lecturer
Spring 2022 Jenny coordinates Harvard GSD Core housing studio with Prof. Jon Lott
01/2022 Anda becomes President of the Boston Society of Architects
11/2021 Anda featured in Design Milk’s Friday Five
Fall 2021 Anda joins Princeton SoA faculty as Visiting Lecturer
07/2021 Jenny coordinates architecture discipline for the launch of Harvard GSD Design Discovery Virtual
05/2021 Public lecture at Munich University of Applied Science Dept. of Architecture
04/2021 Keynote lecture at Texas A&M for National Conference on Beginning Design Student
03/2021 Anda and Jenny are featured in an interview with TONGUES
03/2021 Jenny participates in ETH Zurich Parity Talks: “Curriculum Change: Learning/Unlearning Taste” panel w/ TU-Wein
01/2021 Anda and Jenny weigh in on Post-COVID living for Elle Decor, w/ Deborah Berke, Toshiko Mori, others
12/2020 Interview with TxT Meet the Architect: French 2D
10/2020 Public lecture at Princeton SoA: French 2D "Get It Together" (watch here)
Fall 2020 French 2D leads Princeton SoA vertical studio, “Co.Housing.Crisis”
04/2020 Public lecture at Harvard GSD: French 2D “Together Again” (watch here)
04/2020 Public lecture at CalPoly LA Metro (watch here)
04/2020 French 2D discuss working from home in Archinect “WFH Show & Tell: French 2D”
04/2020 French 2D piece in Madame Architect’s The Expert Series: “A Call for Strange Housing: How We’ll Live Together”
03/2020 Bay State Commons Cohousing wins a 2020 P/A Award from Architect Magazine
03/2020 Anda and Jenny present at Princeton SoA WiD Conference: “Anne Tyng: Ordered Randomness”
03/2020 French 2D installs Cozy Wall/Wall Cozy at Harvard GSD
03/2020 Architect’s Newspaper feature “French 2D builds practice side-by-side”
02/2020 Bay State Commons Cohousing breaks ground (via The Boston Globe)!
11/2020 Jenny lectures with Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu for Harvard GSD “Five on Five” series (scroll down for videos)
10/2019 Outlier Lofts featured in Metropolis Magazine feature by Ken Shulman
10/2019 Public lecture at CU Denver College of Architecture and Planning (watch here)
09/2019 Madame Architect profile: “Humor and Humility: Jenny and Anda French on Their Close Practice as a New Model”
07/2019 Kendall Garage featured in Architect’s Newspaper: “French 2D enlivens a Cambridge parking garage…”
06/2019 French 2D receives a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record
05/2019 Jenny appointed Asst. Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard GSD
03/2019 Archinect feature: “The New Wave of Female Powerhouses are Pushing the Boundaries of Professional Practice”
03/2019 Public Lecture at Le Lab Cambridge “Just Around the Corner: Buildings, Banquets and Bas-Relief”
03/2019 French 2D profile feature in Kontextur
03/2019 Studio Snapshot Interview in Archinect “Architects. Educators. Sisters. The Boston-Based Duo French 2D…”
01/2019 Outlier Lofts featured in Domus: “A sawtooth roof reinterprets a traditional Boston house”
10/2018 Public lecture at University of Washington: Anda French “Just Around the Corner" (watch here)
05/2018 Anda co-chairs and moderates BSA Now Practice Now Panel: STUFF (listen here)
04/2018 Jenny co-chairs and moderates BSA Now Practice Now Panel: CASH (watch here)
05/2018 French 2D featured in Rebel Architette publication “Here We Are”
02/2018 Anda speaks on Microsoft New England panel "Housing in Boston" for #CIVICTECHBOS (recap here)
10/2017 French 2D featured in Architect Magazine “Next Progressives”
10/2017 Place/Setting featured on Boston.com Watch local experts and activists participate in a social experiment…”
02/2017 Interview with WBUR(NPR) Radio Boston: “A Tour Of Boston's Only All-Micro-Unit Building” with Meghna Chakrabarti
01/2017 Anda and Jenny panelists for BSA “Solutions for Attainable City Living: Thinking Small”
Fall 2016 Anda in conversation with Marion Wilson for RISD IntAR Journal Vol. 7 "The Butterfly Effect"
Fall 2016 Jenny writes "A Grand Detour" for Cornell Journal of Architecture Volume 10: Spirits
10/2016 Anda and Jenny panelists for MassHousing public panel discussion on compact living and affordability