Bijoy Jain

Born in 1965 in Mumbai (India). Lives and works in Mumbai.

Founded by Bijoy Jain, Studio Mumbai works with a human infrastructure of skilled craftsmen, technicians and industrial designers who design and build the artworks on their own. The group shares an environment developed from an iterative process, where ideas are examined through large scale models, material studies, sketches and drawings. The projects are developed taking into account the site and a practice that emerges from traditional skills, local building techniques, materials from limited resources.

Bijoy Jain graduated from the University of Washington in St. Louis in Architecture in 1990. He worked in Los Angeles and London between 1989 and 1995, then returned to India to create his architect studio in 1995. Studio Mumbai’s work has been presented at the 12th edition of La Biennale di Venezia and at the Victoria & Albert Museum. It has been awarded many prizes, including being a finalist in the Global Sustainability Architecture Award for the 11th edition of the Aga Prize in 2010. Studio Mumbai has also been the winner of the seventh edition of the Spirit of Nature Award for Architecture in the Wood in Finland and of the third edition of BSI Swiss Architecture Award in 2012. More recently, it was awarded the Great Gold Medal of the Academy of Architecture in Paris in 2014. Moreover, the University of Hasselt in Belgium awarded Bijoy Jain an honorary doctorate in 2014. He taught in numerous universities such as in Copenhagen in 2012, at Yale University for the autumn semester in 2013 and spring semester at Mendrisio in 2014 and 2015.