Bijoy Jain (Studio Mumbai)

Bijoy Jain is an Indian architect born in Mumbai in 1965. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 1990, and worked in Richard Meier’s office in Los Angeles and London before returning to India in 1995, when he founded Studio Mumbai, the practice he still leads from Byculla, in the city where he grew up.

Studio Mumbai works as an interdisciplinary group of architects, craftsmen and builders and explores the boundary between art, architecture and material, with projects such as the Palmyra House in Nandgaon, Copper House and the MPavilion 2016 in Melbourne. Jain received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2009, the Swiss Architectural Award in 2012 and the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2020, and has taught at Yale as Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor.