Bijoy Jain

Place: Mumbai

Born: 1965

Biography:

Bijoy Jain is an Indian architect and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at Yale University. He grew up in Mumbai and studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis until 1990. He 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. Bijoy Jain was invited by Alejandro Aravena to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016 and to the ETH Zurich as a guest critic by Raphael Zuber in 2018. He has received several awards including Global Award for Sustainable Architecture from L’Institut Francais D’Architecture in 2009, Design for Asia Award from the Hong Kong Design Center in 2009, Nomination – Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Palmyra-Haus, Nandgaon in 2009, Swiss Architectural Award in 2012.