All works of architecture are destined to ruin, but what happens afterwards–how does architecture go beyond ruin? Thomas Jorion‘s “Silencio” photo series may not have any answers to that question, but the abandoned infrastructures which it frames have everything to do with the current trend in photographing ruined architecture (sometimes known as “ruin porn“, in the pejorative, of course). What is it about these derelict structures  that makes them so undeniaby seductive, and how have sparked such intense interest in the modern ruin?

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