Jenny French is a founder of Boston-based French 2D, an architecture studio she founded with her sister and partner, Anda French, AIA. Their work centers collaboration across multiple scales, from participatory events and installations to urban-scale textiles and buildings for collective living. French 2D has been recognized by numerous awards and publications, including a Progressive Architecture Award from Architect Magazine, and a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record.
Recently French 2D has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize and was a Finalist for the Architectural Review’s Emerging Award. Their work has been featured in Domus, AZURE, PLOT, Metropolis, The Architect’s Newspaper, and exhibited widely, including at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, MoMA, the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Jenny is an Assistant Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
AWARD-WORTHY CRITERIA: I am looking for projects that expand and uncover overlooked values in the field, particularly those that might challenge our understanding of human comfort and the realities of living with an accelerating wave of crises in our near future. I am also keen to consider projects that leverage limited budgets or resources to achieve a clear point of view - both in design sensibility and ideation.