This paper theorizes the process and mechanisms through which aesthetic styles can re-emerge across time and space. Through a microhistorical analysis of the global diffusion of Palladianism—from sixteenth-century Vicenza to eighteenth-century Britain and Jeffersonian America—we reveal four mechanisms explaining how a style first codified in a provincial context became one of the most enduring architectural grammars in history. Prospective codification captures how codification means—such as Palladio’s Quattro Libri dell’Architettura (1570)—can translate design principles into modular, user-centric grammars that anticipate future adaptation. Twisted transmission refers to the creative reinterpretations introduced by intermediaries—translators, editors, and publishers—whose translations transform dissemination into acts of reinvention.