Style and Solitude av Mari Hvattum

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<b>How modern notions of architectural style were born—and the debates they sparked in nineteenth-century Germany.</b><br><br>The term <i>style</i> has fallen spectacularly out of fashion in architectural circles. Once a conceptual key to understanding architecture’s inner workings, today style seems to be associated with superficiality, formalism, and obsolete periodization. But how did style—once defined by German sociologist Georg Simmel as a place where one is “no longer alone”—in architecture actually work? How was it used and what did it mean? In <i>Style and Solitude, </i>Mari Hvattum<i></i>seeks to understand the apparent death of style, returning to its birthplace in the late eighteenth century, and charting how it grew to influence modern architectural discourse and practice. <br><br>As Hvattum explains, German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century offered competing ideas of what style was and how it should b