The May issue of Domus India documents an encounter with the shape and functioning of visual culture in human history and society. The photographs by Karl Blossfeldt featured here were imagined to be specimens for an educational purpose. On another note, the photographs by Jyoti Bhatt reimagine the human world. The other two photo-essays by Y D Pitkar and Hemangi Kadu bring forth, for us, the way human creativity reproduces the physical, natural, and man-made world constantly through architecture and design. In the feature on two proposed projects by architect Sen Kapadia — one of Indias most introspective and intense architects. Further, we feature a disused watch factory that has been transformed into a pre-school by CollectiveProject. We also feature the transformation of a dignified 18th century orphanage building by Mathew & Ghosh Associates into a store for contemporary lifestyle products.