Anda French, AIA, and Jenny French | Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture

Anda French, AIA, NCARB is a partner in French 2D and a Visiting Faculty member at the Princeton School of Architecture.

Anda was the 2022 President of the Boston Society of Architects/AIA, where she served as Director-at-Large, co-chaired the BSA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force since 2018, and organized the BSA’s Now Practice Now Series, She is a registered Architect in Massachusetts and is NCARB Certified.

Anda received a B.A. in Architecture from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Anda’s teaching and design research has been funded by an Imagining America Grant for Artists and Scholars in Public Life, and she has participated in a variety of panels and symposia on housing, women in design, and practice. She has also taught at Syracuse University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and in the Barnard + Columbia Undergraduate Architecture Program, and in the MIT Department of Architecture.

Jenny French is a partner in French 2D and an assistant professor in practice of architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she has also served as coordinating faculty in architecture for the Design Discovery Program since 2017.

Jenny received a B.A. in Art History and Studio Art from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is a recipient of Harvard’s Julia A. Appleton Traveling Fellowship and has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Jenny has taught at Northeastern University, Tufts University, the Boston Architectural College, and served as a thesis advisor at RISD. Jenny’s design research on site visits to unbuilt architecture has been exhibited at the Harvard GSD and is included in the Cornell Journal of Architecture, Issue 10: Spirits.