The June-July issue of Domus India – a combined issue as Domus has a 11-issues-a-year format – once again explores the relationship between the physical armature of a place and the larger sphere of political and cultural action and production is something that this theme proposes to engage with. In this exploration, we propose to engage with biographies - the vectored lives of people and things; biographies are complex journeys of individuals within multiple lives and spaces. We review the book The Past as Present: Pedagogical Practices in Architecture at the Bombay School of Art that chronicles the Sir JJ School of Architecture’s history and evolution through copious documentation, where drawing was the cornerstone. Further, we examine the ‘generational practices’ phenomenon, which was one of the focus areas in the many discussions and lectures that The State of Architecture exhibition was substantially accompanied with. The issue features a landscape design project for traffic islands in the vibrant yet chaotic public realm of Mumbai’s suburbs that pays homage to the migratory Lesser Flamingos that nest in the vicinity, in the Sewri mudflats. Further, a temple complex in Barmer, Rajasthan filters structured symbolism of the conventional temple architecture typology, reinterpreting it to evolve its form – one that combines the heavy materiality of the stone with the lightness of the structure. And lastly, we feature two diverse projects from a Mumbai-based studio – a residential development and a resort – that explore the powerful perception of geometric articulation of space.