Style is a set of formal concepts which leads to the selection of formal elements to be arranged in a discernible manner. It is not composition but is intimately related to it. Style refers to belonging and constancy.

Style is a repository developed by a period and a place that, with its syntax, establishes a typology (rules). It develops in response to specific historic context.

The International Style, with its ‘elements’ made of concrete, steel and glass arranged in a syntax of the modern industrialised age, arose from particular architectural and political thoughts in the 1910s.

Contrary to the substance of Style, does the repetition of certain architectural ‘mannerisms’ (language implies thought) denote the pursuit of ‘Fashion’ with its subsequent copy, transience and superficiality?