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  1. Pinned Tweet
    3 Feb 2016

    “The only competition for the global order is our knowledge of the past.” — Brett Stevens ()

  2. 12 hours ago

    By order of King Edward III in the 14th c. and ever since, the Lord Chancellor of England has been seated on a sack of wool. (E.E. Power)

  3. Retweeted
    3 Nov 2015

    Christopher Alexander on being true to your nature (and maybe outlining a basic level of ethos for the reactionary).

  4. Retweeted
    13 Oct 2015

    "The Eighteenth Century house fits a man almost perfectly." – H.L. Mencken: “The New Architecture” (HT: )

  5. 19 hours ago

    Once we built beautiful houses.

  6. 19 hours ago
    Replying to

    The author seems to be a good architect.

  7. 19 hours ago

    “We've been told our society has grown wealthier over these last 200 years, yet our building record tells a different story.” —M.W. Grenfell

  8. 21 hours ago

    For reference, published the only long form interview with me so far.

  9. 21 hours ago

    The most Evolian thing Ralph Waldo Emerson ever wrote, and a century before.

  10. Retweeted
    Mar 24

    Brett Stevens at tackles the burning question: is Jane Austen alt-right?

  11. Jul 18

    “The contentment of innumerable people can be destroyed in a generation by the withering touch of our civilisation.” — Ananda Coomaraswamy

  12. Retweeted
    15 Jul 2015

    “Social order is more expensive than people think.” – Brett Stevens

  13. Jul 18

    "We will transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us." —Athenian Oath 335 BC

  14. Retweeted
    7 Jul 2016

    I would love to see SimCity update that adds actual people: races. Heterogenous vs. Homogenous cultures. Or: Diversity as a Disaster Option?

  15. Jul 17
    Replying to

    ....versus the back. This is what 95% of Shanghai (population 24.15 million), looks like. A lot of ppl. to create that one waterfront. (2/2)

  16. Jul 17

    I often hear "but I think modern cities are beautiful!" by someone with a post card image in mind. For example Shanghai, the front: (1/2)

  17. Jul 17

    Lewis and Sophia Mumford (both New Yorkers to the core) got red-pilled hiking in the Cotswolds in August 1925. (Donald L. Miller)

  18. Jul 17

    Excerpt from From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe.

  19. Jul 17

    How oysters became a luxury food item during the Victorian era. I can remember the same thing happening with cod in my own lifetime.

  20. Jul 17

    To us moderns it is amazing that Victorians could live so well from a diet of mostly bread: but wheat used to be vastly more nutritious.

  21. Jul 17

    Modern architecture has solved none of our problems, while creating innumerable new ones.

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