With this issue Domus in India completes four years – 44 issues. Here we feature the Art Deco style, which gained popularity during the 1930s, with its visually stimulating rich colours, geometric shapes and lavish external ornamentation – a recent exhibition ‘Deco on the Oval’ held at the Sir J J School of Architecture, Mumbai traces the unique urban fabric on the western edge of the Oval Maidan, quite distinctly built in the Art Deco style. We also feature another exhibition of sPa’s projects to explain their conceptual situations and set out the evolutionary possibilities within the metastructure of their principals projects, as primary modes of investigations into a theory of architecture. Further, experimenting with the ideas of split, separation and segregation, Reena Kallat’s exhibition Hyphenated Lives combines several entities to identify with the telling traits of contemporary times; that not only in a person’s private life, but within a society too multiple, diverse and contradictory beliefs, prejudices and practices survive simultaneously. We also feature Mahindra and Mahindra’s Automobile Design Studio by SJK Architects in the industrial pockets of Mumbai, which brings a contemporary ‘designed shed’ aesthetic to the existing visual order of industrial sheds.