Jenny French

Jenny French is a partner at French 2D, an internationally recognized Boston studio, which she co-founded with Anda French.

French 2D works on mixed-use projects combining ideas of collectivity with more radical organizations and typologies. Their work centers collaboration across multiple scales, from participatory events and installations to urban-scale textiles and buildings for collective living. French 2D’s housing work focuses on uncommon housing types, found in their cohousing, compact living, and adaptive reuse projects. The practice also works on civic installations and exhibitions that call upon the domestic to bring people together for familiar rituals in unfamiliar spaces, found in furniture, textiles, and environments.

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, Dwell, Monocle, and The Architect’s Newspaper. French 2D’s work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and most recently in the solo show “House Clothes” at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the upcoming 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Jenny previously taught at Northeastern University, Tufts University, and the Boston Architectural College. She was a recipient of the GSD’s Appleton Traveling Fellowship and has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Since 2017 Jenny has been Coordinating Faculty in Architecture for the GSD Design Discovery programs.