Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai Breath of an Architect

Born in 1965 in Mumbai, India, Bijoy Jain, founder and lead architect of Studio Mumbai, holds a Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, United States (1990). After working in Los Angeles and London, he returned to India in 1995 and, the following year, established Bijoy Jain & Associates. In 2005, the architect changed his production model and founded Studio Mumbai, a human-centered infrastructure where architects and artisans work between tradition and modernity using local resources. He sees architecture as a communication between culture and time.

Bijoy Jain has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, at the Yale School of Architecture, and at the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland. His work has also been shown all over the world, including the architecture biennales of Venice (2010 and 2016) and Chicago (2017). Studio Mumbai has been the recipient of many awards, including the Dean’s Medal from Washington University in St. Louis (2021), the Alvar Aalto Medal (2020), the Gold Medal from the Académie d’architecture, Paris (2014), the BSI Swiss Architectural Award (2012), the Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award presented in Finland (2012), and the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2009). Studio Mumbai was also a finalist for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.