2025

5/29 — “Share a Lot” is a winner for the cityLAB-UCLA’s Small Lots, Big Impact competition, designed in collaboration with MAZi Architects and Temporary Office . Read press here: Fast Company, The Architect’s Newspaper. See all submissions and winners here.

5/10 — Figure contributes Veil Craft as part of the US Pavilion's “Porch: an Architecture of Generosity” - part of the 2025 Venice Architectural Biennale. Read more here.


4/9 — DAAM and Figure’s Food Hall at the Center for Care and Discovery honored in Architectural Record’s Record Interiors 2025. Read more here.


4/3  — Figure lectures at CCA Practicing Softly.


3/5  — Affordable housing coverage for 1234 Great Highway found here.


1/21 — Figure teaches Architecture of Care, an option studio at the California College of the Arts. 

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.