BIJOY JAIN / STUDIO MUMBAI

Architect

Born in Mumbai, India, in 1965. Earned a master’s degree from Washington University in St Louis in 1990. He gained practical experience in Los Angeles and London from 1989, then returned to India in 1995 to establish Studio Mumbai. He currently teaches at the Academy of Architecture in Switzerland and has served as a visiting professor at Yale University and the Royal Danish Academy. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Hasselt University in Belgium for his contributions to the field of architecture, and in 2017 he was named an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2018, he completed his first architectural project outside of India, the multi-purpose space LOG in Onomichi, Japan. In 2020, he received the Alvar Aalto Medal. From 2023 to 2024, a solo exhibition of his work was held at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.

Studio Mumbai operates as an interdisciplinary group of architects, engineers, master builders, artisans, technicians, and artists across continents. The studio itself is a place for research, and it continues to explore ideas through scale models, objects, materials, and drawings based on an iterative process.

https://www.studiomumbai.com/