El Croquis Studio Mumbai Hb (157 and 200)

El Croquis Studio Mumbai Hb (157 and 200)

This hardback reprint combines two El Croquis issues dedicated to the Indian architecture firm founded by Bijoy Jain. It takes stock of Studio Mumbai’s most recognised works spanning 2003-2019. The monograph features the Studio Mumbai Work-Place in Nagaon, the Casa Tara in Kashid, the Leti 360 Resort in Leti, and the Palmyra House in Nandgaon. It then revisits more recent works such as Copper House II, the Ahmedabad Residence, and the Ganga Maki Textile Studio in the Himalayan foothills. Jain and his team of architects, engineers, carpenters, and masons excel in blending Indian and Western cultures, as seen in the thatched MPavilion 2016 in Melbourne.

About Studio Mumbai

Bijoy Jain was born in Mumbai in 1965, and received his M. Arch. degree from Washington University in St. Louis, USA in 1990. He worked in Los Angeles and London between 1989 and 1995 before returning to India in 1995 to found his practice.

Studio Mumbai works with an interdisciplinary group of people between India, Japan and Europe. Architects, engineers, master builders, skilled artisans, technicians and draftsmen are collectively involved in the research and development of the work. This group shares an environment created from an iterative process, where ideas are explored through the production of large-scale mock-ups, models, material studies, sketches and drawings. Projects are developed through careful consideration of place and practice that draws from local skills, building techniques, materials and an ingenuity arising from limited resources. The essence of the work lies in the relationship between man in nature – nature in man.

Portrait by Rema Chaudhary