bHow modern notions of architectural style were born--and the debates they sparked in nineteenth-century Germany.b pThe term istylei 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 iStyle and Solitude, iMari Hvattumi iseeks 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. pAs 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