{"product_id":"style-and-solitude-isbn-9780262545006","title":"Style and Solitude","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow modern notions of architectural style were born—and the debates they sparked in nineteenth-century Germany.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe term \u003ci\u003estyle\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eStyle and Solitude, \u003c\/i\u003eMari Hvattum\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eseeks 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Hvattum explains, German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century offered competing ideas of what style was and how it should be applied in architecture. From Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s thoughtful eclecticism to King Maximilian II’s attempt to capture the zeitgeist in an architectural competition, style was at the center of fascinating experiments and furious disputes. Starting with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s invention of the period style and ending a century later with Gottfried Semper’s generative theory of style, Hvattum explores critical debates that are still ongoing today.“The concept of style has always been at the core of architectural history and theory, from Vitruvius to Koolhaas and beyond, but there is a signal lack of studies dealing with its development that are historically grounded, conceptually acute, and do not suffer from modernist bias. The present study delivers precisely this.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCaroline van Eck, Professor of Art History and Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This book fills a gap in the literature on style and in the process considerably enriches our understanding of the development of modern architecture.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMartin Bressani, William Macdonald Professor, Peter Goo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStyle and Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely book, notwithstanding Hvattum’s subtle investigation of style’s untimeliness, and a fascinating and important study.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRichard Taws, Professor of the History of Art, University College London\u003c\/b\u003eMari Hvattum is a Professor of architectural history at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eGottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism \u003c\/i\u003eand the edited collections \u003ci\u003eModelling Time \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Printed and the Built\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304948879589,"sku":"NP9780262545006","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545006.jpg?v=1767737470","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/style-and-solitude-isbn-9780262545006","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}