2025
Architectural Review’s House 2025 shortlists House of Four Ecologies.
Architectural Record features House of Four Ecologies.
Figure moves into a 1960s office tower designed by FTM Associates in the Mission District.
AN Interior names Figure one of Top 50 Architects and Designers of 2025.
Frolic and Figure share project updates for the new missing middle housing project in East Palo Alto.
Figure participates in a community engagement session for East Palo Alto’s multifamily project.
Figure featured in Archinect’s Studio Snapshot.
“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.
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.
DAAM and Figure’s Food Hall at the Center for Care and Discovery honored in Architectural Record’s Record Interiors 2025. Read more here.
Figure lectures at CCA Practicing Softly.
Affordable housing coverage for 1234 Great Highway found here.
Figure teaches Architecture of Care, an option studio at the California College of the Arts.
Figure and PTA present at the third Community Meeting for 1234 Great Highway. Photo by Camille Cohen for The Standard.
2024
Figure and PTA present at the second Community Meeting for 1234 Great Highway.
Aer New York City opens.
Figure moves into Miro Studios in the Mission District.
2023
AN Interior names Figure one of Top 50 Architects and Designers of 2023
Gualala Community Center selects Figure for rebuilding project after RFQ solicitation, featured in The Architect’s Newspaper.
Hydra Health featured in AN Interior.
Figure x Studio J. Jih present in the public presentations for the Memorial to the Victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre.
Hydra Health featured in Hypebeast.
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.
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”.
Construction completes in the Outer Richmond renovation.
James leads a graduate level thesis studio semester at Cal.
Figure kicks-off new residential project in Corona Heights.
2022
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.
James Leng participates in the University of Pennsylvania's Visual Studies panel discussion led by Nate Hume. The panel includes Germane Barnes, Galo Canizares, Jenny French, and Benjamin Vanmuysen.
Figure and Karamuk Kuo receive second place in the San Francisco, Swiss House Mission Street RFP.
Figure and Studio J.Jih’s Hairpin House gets published in AN Interior Fall/Winter 2022 issue. Read here.
Framing progress on Blue Oak House. Photo by Matt Harris.
James leads a graduate level thesis seminar, and Jennifer co-coordinates an undergraduate studio, ARCH 100A, at Cal.
The hospital gift shop, Hydra Health, opens at Henry Cancer Center at Geisinger Wyoming in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Construction begins for a Noe Valley Renovation.
New retail store in Wilkes-Barre, PA, starts construction.
Construction begins for the Outer Richmond Renovation.
James advises graduate level thesis students, and Jennifer leads an undergraduate option studio on art storage at UC Berkeley.
Construction completed for Hairpin House.
2021
James Leng starts artist residency at MacDowell. Photo of Alexander Studio.
Veil Craft opens to the public at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles. Photos by Natasha Sadikin.
Jennifer Ly teaches [IN]ARCH as an Academic Lead.
Figure moves to 757 Brannan Street in SOMA.
Blue Oak House is included into the Rebuild Paradise Floor Plan Library after receiving master plan approval from Butte County and Paradise.
Figure lectures at University of Oregon.
Figure lectures at NOMASAAU.
James Leng teaches 100C and Jennifer Ly teaches 200A at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
2020
First store for bags and accessories company, Aer, opens in San Francisco in the Mission District.
Figure lectures at the University of Maryland.
James Leng and Jennifer Ly teach ARCH 100A at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
Figure discusses Sea Gate in FOIL Architecture Chats, hosted by Mark Acciari and Waqas Jawaid.
Construction begins on the Hairpin House, a brownstone renovation in Boston, designed in collaboration with J.Roc Design.
James Leng and Jennifer Ly receive a Graham Foundation Grant for Veil Craft.
Jennifer Ly teaches [IN]ARCH as an Academic Lead.
Figure participates in Urbanism Beyond Corona, hosted by CCA’s Urban Works Agency and Experimental History Project.
Figure wins the inaugural architectural installation of a new five-year collaboration between Materials & Applications X Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles.
Figure moves into the Box Factory in San Francisco.
James Leng teaches ARCH 100B at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
2019
Figure completes Moon Creative Lab in Palo Alto, CA.
Figure moves to 1633 Market Street in San Francisco.
Jennifer Ly teaches ARCH 100B at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.
James Leng’s exhibition, Portals through the Haze, opens at Syracuse University.
2018
James Leng teaches at Syracuse University as the 2018–19 Harry der Boghosian Fellow.
Jennifer Ly teaches ARCH 100A at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.