Bijoy Jain

Bijoy Jain (born 1965) is an Indian architect and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of architecture at Yale University. He received his M. Arch from Washington University in St Louis, USA in 1990. He then worked in Richard Meier office at Los Angeles and London between 1989 and 1995. He returned to India in 1995 and founded his own firm Studio Mumbai. His works have been presented in many venues including the Alvar Aalto Symposium, the Architectural League of New York and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which holds several of his project archives.[1] He was also a finalist in the Agha Khan Awards 2010 Cycle.

Bijoy Jain
Jain at CAA Conference 2013, Dhaka
Born1965
Mumbai
NationalityIndian
OccupationArchitect
AwardsGlobal Award for Sustainable Architecture
PracticeStudio Mumbai

In 2015, Jain's work was featured alongside Umberto Riva's in the exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.[2]

Awards

Personal life

Bijoy Jain was in a relationship with supermodel Lakshmi Menon.

References
  1. "Finding aid for the Bijoy Jain fonds,". at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
  2. Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). "Rooms You May Have Missed". www.cca.qc.ca. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  3. "Bijoy Jain: building architecture that 'contains the life' of its environs". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  4. "Third edition - 2012". BSI. Retrieved 25 February 2015.

Official website

Finding aid for the Bijoy Jain fonds at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Digitized items)

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