The Naomi Milgrom Foundation announced the commission for the third annual MPavilion has been awarded to acclaimed Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai. The announcement comes as the 2015 MPavilion closed on Sunday 7 February having welcomed more than 64,000 visitors attending 419 free events hosted over five months within the temporary architecture pavilion designed by award-winning British architect Amanda Levete of London-based studio AL_A.

Mumbai born Bijoy Jain is the founder of Studio Mumbai, known for working with a human infrastructure of skilled artisans, technicians and draftsmen who design and build the work themselves. The practice – which draws on traditional skills, local building techniques and materials – has had its work presented at the XII Venice Biennale and Victoria & Albert Museum and recently was awarded the Grande Medaille d’Or from the Academie D’Architecture in Paris (2014).