French 2D is an award-winning architecture studio based in Boston and is deeply engaged with local issues of collectivity, housing, public space, history, and identity. Co-founded by sisters Anda French and Jenny French, French 2D’s work combines formal exploration, experimental collaborative methods, and applied research in commercial, residential, and civic projects.

French 2D works on housing and mixed-use projects with a focus on strange housing types that combine familiar ideas of home with more radical organizations and typologies. The studio works on civic installations and exhibitions (or sets in the city) that bring people together for familiar rituals in unfamiliar spaces. Their interest in the hybrid models that exist between practice and academia has been the catalyst for their current involvement in a series of BSA workshops and a symposium the studio organized along with a small group of practitioners and academics, entitled Now Practice Now.

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. In 2026, the firm was named a winner of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices award.

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.