How Long to Read Style and Solitude

How Long Does it Take to Read Style and Solitude?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Style and Solitude by Mari Hvattum

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How modern notions of architectural style were born—and the debates they sparked in nineteenth-century Germany. The term style 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 Style and Solitude, Mari Hvattum 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. As 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.

How long is Style and Solitude?

Style and Solitude by Mari Hvattum is 313 pages long, and a total of 79,189 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Style and Solitude Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 12 minutes to read Style and Solitude aloud.

What Reading Level is Style and Solitude?

Style and Solitude is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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