Bijoy Jain

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

Bijoy Jain (born 1965) is an Indian architect and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at Yale University.

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Biography

Bijoy Jain grew up in Mumbai and studied architecture at Washington University in St Louis until 1990 and 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. [1] 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.

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References

  1. Burrichter, Felix (18 January 2020). ""INTERVIEW: BIJOY JAIN, FOUNDER OF STUDIO MUMBAI IS INSPIRED BY AIR, WATER, AND LIGHT"". Pin-Up .
  2. Harman, Greg (10 September 2014). "Bijoy Jain: building architecture that 'contains the life' of its environs". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  3. https://swissarchitecturalaward.com/en/editions/2011-2012/

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