French 2D

05/24/2021

Working as their own developer, Baystate Commons Cohousing in Malden, is an innovative 30-unit cohousing community and is the first of its type under Malden’s newly created Cohousing Zoning Ordinance. Anda French and Baystate Commons will discuss the finance and zoning complexities, sustainable st...

04/09/2020

Things we should have share weeks ago...

See how this P/A Award-winning cohousing community in Malden, Mass. used a collaborative design process to address the specific needs of the 30 families—who themselves are driving the project—that will be housed there.

04/09/2020

Lecture next week

Harvard Graduate School of Design has organized a series of virtual public lectures across the month of April, an effort toward sharing and stoking design discourse amid today's almost-entirely digital context. GSD faculty including Dan D'Oca, Oana Stănescu, Jenny French, and David Moreno Mateos wi...

05/30/2018

Also, what a nice surprise in our email last week to find out we were included in this incredible collection of 365 international women architects.

05/30/2018

Loving this group!

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12/08/2017

Microhousing✔️ cohousing ✔️ important conversations, thanks CoHousing Solutions

TOWN SQUARE | The exhibit, organized with the Citizens Housing & Planning Council and presented in partnership with Resource Furniture and Clei, looks at how American households have changed and how housing can adapt to those changes.

12/04/2017

Jenny French (MArch ’11), design critic in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her practice French 2D are the focus of Archi...

10/04/2017

Place/Setting Model 2 @ Boston, Massachusetts

02/28/2017

Our tour through 1047 Comm Ave's micro-units with Meghna Chakrabartii aired today on Radio Boston.
Great editing, lots of fun.
Architecture on the radio just may be the new thing.
Thanks to Alison Bruzek, and to Barry Bluestone for connecting us!

1047 Commonwealth Ave. is Boston's first and only all-micro-unit housing complex.

01/26/2017

Thank you BSA Housing Committee for including us in last night's panel discussion "Solutions for Attainable City Living: Thinking Small" http://www.architects.org/programs-and-events/solutions-attainable-city-living-thinking-small

Please join the Housing Committee for a discussion on the Urban Housing Unit (uhü) as a viable solution for attainable city living.

09/30/2016

Tuesday October 18th, 2016
French 2D will participate in a panel discussion on the future of micro units in Massachusetts. French 2D will address the recently completed 1047 Commonwealth Ave Project, the 180-unit, first fully micro housing development in the City of Boston.
RSVP to Cibele Goncalves [email protected]
Image provided by MassHousing.

03/24/2015

We will be on a panel for Boston Design Week talking about our recent work. Come see us if you're in town!
http://www.bostondesignweek.com/ #!the-batch-yard-/ca6x

Boston Design Week seeks to increase public awareness and appreciation of all aspects of design, foster recognition of the vital role design plays in our lives.