Ankon Mitra is an architect by training and an artist by temperament, with a keen interest in the geometry and mathematics of trees, flowers, hills and coastlines. A Gold-Medallist from the School of Planning and Architecture (S.P.A), New Delhi, India,...
Read MoreAnkon Mitra is an architect by training and an
artist by temperament, with a keen interest in the geometry and mathematics of
trees, flowers, hills and coastlines.
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Gold-Medallist from the School of Planning and Architecture (S.P.A), New Delhi, India, he is Design Director (Landscape), at Hexagramm Design Pvt. Ltd., working on resorts, farmhouses, hotels and residences of various sizes and
imaginations. When he is not thinking about vermi-compost and flower hybrids,
he researches Tessellating Geometries, folding processes in nature, and Origami
in paper, plastics and metal. He also holds a post-graduate degree in parametric design,
bio-mimicry and advance geometries from The Bartlett, University College London.
Since 2011,
he has conducted scores of workshops on Geometry and Origami, in India and Singapore, teaching Undergrad and
Post-graduate design and architecture students about origami and its
multi-faceted implications for spaces, products, apparel, art and industry. He
also works with two charities in Delhi, teaching Origami to create livelihood
opportunities by creating hand-folded products and packaging.
Through the
initiative ‘Oritecture’ he is exploring the linkages and uses of Origami in Design and Architecture. The studio has completed a number of restaurant, retail, facade and spatial projects created with the folded technique in metal (aluminium, steel and brass).
Since 2014, he has been exhibiting as an artist. He has received the
All-India Gold Medal for Sculpture for his work ‘Whirlpools and Vortices’ in 2017-18
from the Prafulla Dahanukar Foundation. His work has been shown at the India
Art Fair 2018 https://goo.gl/zhyXtN , the Lucca Biennale 2018 in Italy https://goo.gl/djByDy , the Shanghai Paper Art Biennale in 2019 in China and the CODA Museum at Apeldoorn, The Netherlands in 2021. His sculptures and installations are a part of prestigious collections and hotel spaces throughout Asia.
He is a TEDx speaker and works with the conviction that the Universe is made and unmade from Folding, and that through the grace of his work the cosmos will one day fully enfold him. He lives and works in New Delhi and has
an eight year old son, who loves making dough sculptures.
