ABSTRACT
In the Introduction to this book, we quote Circiaco Moron Arroyo, referring to the humanities as a halo that allows us to view the intricate beauty of science and technology refl ected in its glory. This metaphor endows the humanities with sacredness, a precious ethereal quality, which separates it from the objects of its light. One is led, then, to question the attribute of technology. Part 2 explores this nebulous, possibly unsettling and anxious trace that technology lends to architecture and architectural thought. The following essays reveal gusts and scattered dust of spectral activity, activity which allows the humanities to negotiate their presence in the here and now as well as shedding perhaps more secular light on the architecture of the past.
