Revisited

As a rule our perception of things changes with the growth in the length of time that separates us from them. Buildings that, when children, we experienced as enormous no longer appear so large decades later. This is not just a matter of scale and different eye levels, but equally, indeed even more so, a question of a far more comprehensive subjective perception. Our perception also changes with the changing context of our world of imagination and with our accordingly modified interpretation of what we have perceived. In this issue we wish to trace such movements. We enquire what has become today of certain high-points and heatedly discussed projects from times gone by. Examinations of this kind enable us to gain a clearer view of our own time, perhaps to separate the wheat from the chaff. The backward look explains the present.