Anda French and Jenny French. Photo: Steph Larsen.
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Bay State Cohousing. Photo: Naho Kubota.
Anda French, AIA, and Jenny French | Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture
Anda French, AIA, and Jenny French, partners of Boston-based French 2D, will deliver the 2024 Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
French 2D is an award-winning Boston studio founded by Jenny French and Anda French, AIA. Their work centers collaboration across multiple scales, from participatory events/installations to urban-scale textiles and buildings for collective living.
French 2D was internationally recognized as a 2023 Finalist for the Architectural Review’s Emerging Award. The firm received a 2020 P/A (Progressive Architecture) Award from Architect Magazine, and a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record, and has been featured in Domus, Metropolis, The Architect’s Newspaper, and in the solo show “House Clothes” at UMASS Amherst. Anda is a visiting lecturer at the Princeton School of Architecture. Jenny is an assistant professor in the practice of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
About Anda French, AIA
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.
About Jenny French
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.
Place/Setting
Joining forces with civically engaged social scientists, innovators and activists, French 2D and Gabriel Mugar created Place/Setting, a series of collaborative meals set in an installation that traces the productive conversations that happen within its space during HUBweek 2017 on Boston on City Hall Plaza. Courtesy French 2D and HUBweek.
Bay State Cohousing
Bay State Cohousing is a 30-unit community self-developed by its residents family, at the northern edge of Metropolitan Boston. Following the Cohousing ethos, each of the 30 units provide the amenities of a private home, while also creating a community around shared spaces and resources.
Photo: Naho Kubota.
Bay State Cohousing
Photo: Naho Kubota.
1047 Commonwealth micro-housing
In association with Neshamkin French Architects, Inc., French 2D led the design and construction of both the interior and exterior of the 180 micro unit housing project in Boston. Units vary from 340-370 square feet and communal living amenities like a lounge, library and fitness area are provided.
Photo: French 2D.