Bijoy Jain fonds, 2008-2015.

335 drawings, 109 photographs, 67 models, other materials.

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The Bijoy Jain fonds at the CCA represents eight projects dating from 2009 to 2015, a selection that emphasizes Jain's interest in the typology of the courtyard. Several of the projects--the Weavers' Studio in Dehradun, the Saat Rasta live/work complex in Mumbai, and a house in Chennai--were in the design or construction phases at the time of the acquisition. In this sense, the fonds documents not only Jain's most recent built work but also his ongoing research and the wide range of tools he deploys from project to project. Other projects include the Demolition Series, research documenting conditions created by building demolition in Indian cities; a speculative proposal for migrant housing in Mumbai and Surat; the Copper House II, in Chondi, outside Mumbai; and the Ahmedabad House. Comprising digital and hand drawings, models, photographs, video recordings, material samples, and reproduced notebooks and sketchbooks, the fonds reflects Studio Mumbai's varied, adaptable working style. Almost all material from the fonds was on view at the CCA in the exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva (4 November 2014-19 April 2015), the first exhibition in North America focusing on the architect's output.

Bijoy Jain (Indian architect, born 1965 in Mumbai). In 1990, Jain received a Master of Architecture degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where he studied under Studio Works founder Robert Mangurian. He worked in the model workshop of Richard Meier in Los Angeles until 1991. Jain then formed a small firm in London with a colleague from Meier's office before returning to India in 1995, opening his own firm, Bijoy Jain Associates, in Nagaon, outside Mumbai. In 2000 he founded Studio Mumbai with many of the craftsmen who had been working with him since his return to India. Jain's work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the 2010 Venice Biennale, where he exhibited a mock-up of the Studio Mumbai workshop in Alibag. He has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Yale University, and the Università della Svizzera Italiana.

Jain, Bijoy.
Studio Mumbai Architects.
Architecture, Domestic India History 21st century.
Architecture, Domestic.
India.
Courtyard houses India 2000-2020.
Architecture India 2000-2020.

Fonds (collections)
Drawings.
Photographs.
Digital images.
Architectural models.
Artifacts (object genre)
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
History.

Location: Library archives collection 292334
Call No.: AP182
Status: Available