How to Build A House Jeffrey D. Taft, PhD Chief Architect for Electric Grid Transformation Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A True Story When I was a child, my father built a house. I don’t mean he paid somebody to build one, I mean he built a house himself. One day he told me a little story about that. He said, “Son, when you build a house, what do you pick up first: a shovel, Then he said, “Of course, I know a few guys who try to hang the windows first.” “Don’t be a hang-the-windows-first guy.” or a pencil?”

Start with the Pencil and You Get:

Start with the Shovel and You Get: The Winchester Mystery House “Don’t be a hang-the-windows-first guy.”

We Have to Re-build This for the 21 st Century. Doesn’t It Deserve Good Architecture? Let’s pick up the architecture pencil first.