Ankon Mitra is a trained architect and practices as a designer of interiors, landscapes and as a sculptor/installation artist. He has built an international reputation as a pioneer of the folding technique through his diverse projects. His studio’s work has been exhibited in India, Italy, France, UK, USA, Japan, China, Singapore, The Maldives and most recently the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands and the India Pavilion of the just concluded London Design Biennale at the Somerset House. His work was showcased at the Arte Laguna in Venice last year. His sculptures and installations are part of public developments and private collections (outdoor as well as indoor) all over the world, the most recent being at the Bangalore Airport BIAL Head Office and the Hilton in Bangalore. A TEDx speaker and a warrior for 'making connections across disciplines' with his brainchild - ‘Oritecture - Origami + Architecture’, Mitra shares a unique vision of a universe forming and dissolving from acts of folding. His folding practice encompasses materials as diverse as metal, paper, plastics, leather, fabric, concrete, terracotta, glass and wood veneer. He passionately believes in the two maxims - Geometry Aims at the Eternal (Plato), and The Universe is Mathematics (Max Tegmark). He is Director at Hexagramm Infrastructure PL and with his partners - architects Kanishka Jain and Aashish Garg co-creates works of architecture and landscape. He teaches the aesthetic, material, technical and structural aspects of folding at IITs, NIDs and other colleges of art, architecture and engineering in India, S-E Asia and the US.