2024
9/25 — University of Chicago Medical Center’s Food Hall opens in Chicago. Read coverage here.
6/25 — Figure and PTA present at the second Community Meeting for 1234 Great Highway.
3/16 — Aer New York City opens.
2023
12/31 — Figure featured as one of ten California design firms in Wallpaper* Next Generation issue.
12/01 — Figure selected as Architect Magazine’s Next Progressives
10/01 — AN Interior names Figure one of Top 50 Architects and Designers of 2023
9/13 — Gualala Community Center selects Figure for rebuilding project after RFQ solicitation.
8/01 — Hydra Health featured in AN Interior.
2/18 — Figure x Studio J. Jih present in the public presentations for the Memorial to the Victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre.
2/11 — Hydra Health featured in Hypebeast.
01/20 — The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs announce the six finalists for the Memorial to the Victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre. Figure x Studio J. Jih has submitted the Phase 1 design for this historic memorial competition. The DCA press release can be read here, along with articles from The Architect’s Newspaper, artnet News, LAist, Los Angeles Times, and Domus.
01/20 — Figure contributes to Disc Journal #2 Intimacy. Book launches in NYC on 01/20 at Bungee Space, and in LA on 01/29 at Materials & Applications. Listen to M&A Architecture Radio Special Release, “A Woven Conversation”.
01/18 — Construction completes in the Outer Richmond renovation.
01/18 — James leads a graduate level thesis studio semester at Cal.
01/11 — Figure kicks-off new residential project in Corona Heights.
2022
11/03 — James Leng participates in the PLAT 11: Soft Launch + roundtable discussion. Figure contributed the essay, Practicing Softly, to the latest issue. The journal can be purchased here.
11/01 — James Leng participates in the University of Pennsylvannia’s Visual Studies panel discussion led by Nate Hume. The panel includes Germane Barnes, Galo Canizares, Jenny French, and Benjamin Vanmuysen.
10/03 — Figure and Karamuk Kuo receive second place in the San Francisco, Swiss House Mission Street RFP.
10/01 — Figure and Studio J.Jih’s Hairpin House gets published in AN Interior Fall/Winter 2022 issue. Read here.
8/17 — James leads a graduate level thesis seminar, and Jennifer co-coordinates an undergraduate studio, ARCH 100A, at Cal.
7/26 — The hospital gift shop, Hydra Health, opens at Henry Cancer Center at Geisinger Wyoming in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
5/30 — Construction begins for a Noe Valley Renovation.
3/22 — New retail store in Wilkes-Barre, PA, starts construction.
1/20 — Construction begins for the Outer Richmond Renovation.
1/19 — James advises graduate level thesis students, and Jennifer leads an undergraduate option studio on art storage at UC Berkeley.
1/14 — Construction completed for Hairpin House.
2021
9/20 — James Leng starts artist residency at MacDowell.
7/17 — Veil Craft opens to the public at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles.
7/6 — Jennifer Ly teaches [IN]ARCH as an Academic Lead.
6/15 — Figure moves to 757 Brannan Street in SOMA.
6/10 — Blue Oak House is included into the Rebuild Paradise Floor Plan Library after receiving master plan approval from Butte County and Paradise.
5/21 — Figure lectures at University of Oregon.
3/11 — Figure lectures at NOMASAAU.
1/12 — James Leng teaches 100C and Jennifer Ly teaches 200A at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
2020
11/13 — First store for bags and accessories company, Aer, opens in San Francisco in the Mission District.
10/28 — Figure lectures at the University of Maryland.
8/26 — James Leng and Jennifer Ly teach ARCH 100A at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
8/16 — Figure discusses Sea Gate in FOIL Architecture Chats, hosted by Mark Acciari and Waqas Jawaid.
7/31 — Construction begins on the Hairpin House, a brownstone renovation in Boston, designed in collaboration with J.Roc Design.
7/30 — James Leng and Jennifer Ly receive a Graham Foundation Grant for Veil Craft.
7/6 — Jennifer Ly teaches [IN]ARCH as an Academic Lead.
7/1 — Figure participates in Urbanism Beyond Corona, hosted by CCA’s Urban Works Agency and Experimental History Project.
3/03 — Figure wins the inaugural architectural installation of a new five-year collaboration between Materials & Applications X Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles.
3/01 — Figure moves into the Box Factory in San Francisco.
1/14 — James Leng teaches ARCH 100B at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
2019
9/19 — Figure completes Moon Creative Lab in Palo Alto, CA.
9/1 — Figure moves to 1633 Market Street in San Francisco.
1/12 — Jennifer Ly teaches ARCH 100B at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
5/3 — James Leng’s exhibition, Portals through the Haze, opens at Syracuse University.
2018
8/26 — James Leng teaches at Syracuse University as the 2018–19 Harry der Boghosian Fellow.
8/21 — Jennifer Ly teaches ARCH 100A at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
8/1 — Jennifer Ly completes travels for the Rotch Travelling Scholarship.
5/28 — Figure is established.