A CATASTROPHIC SILENCE

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Summer School 2008

A catastrophic event strikes without warning.
The electrical grid goes from brown to black.
All internal combustion engines fail.
A fast silence falls across the city...

“Right now, the average daytime decibel level in Cairo is 85 dbA, the equivalent of standing fifteen feet from a freight train. A freight train 15 hours long. Everyday. London is only slightly quieter.”

—New York Times 
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