Richard Taylor, FAIA

From a 4-year-old creating towers with cantilevered balconies made of (guess what?) dominoes and popsicle sticks, through a rocky education road, a paratrooper's experiences, and eventually to an award-winning career as an architect, Richard Taylor recounts his life journey with dry humor, a certain self-deprecating braggadocio, and enough lessons learned bass-akwards to encourage us all. Top this off with fourteen nitty-gritty stories of specific buildings, from the first building to use a liquid-filled structure as fire protection, to the UGA athletic facilities built for Coach Vince Dooley, the first solar-cooled building, the first half-buried solar-collector, the first building to rededicate the over-turning forces of a hurricane into manageable lift, and finally to his very own treehouse residence.