Practice
Landart Designs is a Pune based Landscape Architecture Firm in India since 1997. It is co-founded and led by Landscape Architects Anjali Kumthekar and Avadhoot Kumthekar.
The Firm is known for the ecologically conscious design approaches and Sustainable Landscape Practices. Designing with an Eco- Aesthetics, creating Artful spaces with a complete understanding of Natural Systems and processes, Site specific and people centric designs, creating spaces for health and well being for all age groups, are our strong points.
Landart Designs has on its credit a wide range of Landscape projects all over India ranging from large scale landscape planning projects like Neighbourhood Townships, Multi-Residential, Industrial, Hospitality, Institutional, Commercial Projects and intensive designs of exclusive Villas, Resorts and Farm Houses.
The firm has won awards in open and invited competitions at national level. The Landart Studio has been an evolving place for The Team who believes in the process of learning and sharing of knowledge. Committed to work-life balance, the team members enjoy a healthy work culture.
Principal
Anjali Kumthekar
Founder Partner
Masters in Landscape Architecture,
School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi, 1997.
Bachelor of Architecture, Pune University, 1994.
An artist in heart, a nature lover and an explorer of plants. As a seeker, mediator and a mother of two national level swimmers, she knows the balancing of life well.
Permaculture Design, Urban Permaculture, Rainwater Harvesting are her keen interests and also the focus of her work. She enjoys creating contextual landscapes which evoke emotional responses, creating unique sensory experiences. For her, each project has a unique response to its own narrative and each time the design holds an opportunity to give back to Nature.
She has remained close to education, as a design juror to many of the Landscape Design architectural schools in Pune. She has been pivotal in developing the Knowledge centre at Landart Studio.
Avdhoot Kumthekar
Founder Partner
Masters in Landscape Architecture,
School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi, 1997.
Bachelor of Architecture, Pune University, 1994.
Avadhoot is a fitness enthusiast and a disciplined exercise regime is what he likes to put up first on his introduction. Weekly Climb of Sinhagad Fort is part of his routine for years. He is a marathon runner and a hiker, and loves trail running. A family man, a dog lover, spends his free time with pet dog Zoyaa.
His strength is Site Planning and Designing in the public realm. He believes in creating spaces which respond to the site context.
He has been instrumental in creating organized framework of working in the Firm which includes work process, drawings and data storage systems. He believes modular designing is key to create cost-effective solutions which is primary concern of present decade and is keen to develop details and methodology for this.