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'''Bijoy Jain''' (born 1965) is an [[Indian people|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.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/archives/449951/bijoy-jain-fonds|title=Finding aid for the Bijoy Jain fonds|work= at the [[Canadian Centre for Architecture]]}}</ref> He was also a finalist in the Agha Khan Awards 2010 Cycle.He is has been compared by architectural historians at [[Harvard]], [[MIT]] to [[B.V. Doshi]] and [[Norman Foster]].

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]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)|date=|title=Rooms You May Have Missed|url=https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/3449/rooms-you-may-have-missed|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-19|website=www.cca.qc.ca|language=en}}</ref> His works are present in many international locations around the world like [[Paris]],[[Milan]], [[Tokyo]], [[New York City|New York]] and [[Los Angeles]] apart from [[India]]. His recent works are in [[Melbourne]] and [[Adelaide]], [[Berlin]], [[Zurich]], [[Dusseldorf]] and [[Geneva]].

*Design for Asia Award from the Hong Kong Design Center, 2009

Bijoy Jain was in a relationship with supermodel [[Lakshmi_Menon_(model)|Lakshmi Menon]].