MASH Podcast: Artist Series - Ankon Mitra: Journey Into the Folds
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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. 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).  In this one of a kind podcast, learn about the artist's famous 'folding' technique.
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