VJAA has received significant recognition, including twenty-two national design awards. The firm has been awarded six National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards, six Progressive Architecture Awards, and two American Institute of Architects/Committee on the Environment--Top Ten Green Building Awards. VJAA is the recipient of the 2012 National American Institute of Architects Firm Award. Jennifer has presented their work as a guest lecturer at numerous schools of architecture.

Jennifer's practice, research and teaching is grounded in the study of how architecture is interwoven with its social, cultural, and material context. She has developed research and scholarship that explore ideas prevalent in her architectural practice through collaborative publications that include two books; Parallel Cities and a monograph on the work, VJAA, published by Princeton Architectural Press. This work focuses on four themes: Environment and Social Space (which includes sustainability), Digital fabrication and Systems Integration (which includes structures, mechanical systems, thermal properties and daylighting), Embodied Intelligence (as a form of historic preservation), and Urbanism (which is focused on contextualizing the collective social program for architecture). Jennifer is co-author, with partner Vincent James, of a monograph on their practice published by Princeton Architectural Press as well as their recent book Parallel Cities: The Multilevel Metropolis (2016). Parallel Cities: The Multilevel Metropolis, published in 2016, with co-author Vincent James, was preceded by an exhibition at MIT's Keller Gallery (2014) and was included in the exhibition, "Open City" at the International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam (2009).