Jeff approaches a prospective architectural client with an approach that is unusual among people of his profession. His first goal is to draw out of the potential client his or her needs, both those the client recognizes and the ones that become apparent from observation. Once a preliminary set of needs is established, Jeff sets about helping the client to arrive at a broad-stroke design.

Throughout the process of design and building, Jeff's foremost concern is that of the client. A patient and attentive listener, he strives to truly hear the wishes of the client and apply his considerable creativity to the task of making them whole.

Equally adept with a pencil and paper or a computer, Jeff has the ability to "talk in pictures" with ease, helping to transform words and concepts into a two-dimensional visualization. Using those sketches as a jumping-off point, Jeff assembles the necessary data, from living space requirements through code requirements to the topography and visual characteristics of the parcel of land. He carefully integrates the quantifiable data with the harder to measure, but equally important subjective wants and needs of the future inhabitants to arrive at a design that's at once attractive, functional and comfortable in its surroundings.

Diplomatic and sensitive, Jeff works effectively with the other members of the team, from the excavator and framer, electrician and plumber to the finish carpenter and inspector to insure that the client's needs are met. He's equally comfortable with a difficult restoration or a new construction. More than a designer of buildings, Jeff is a student of the tradition of design, respectful of the history of a standing building, as well as the surroundings of a proposed new structure.

Jeff is a graduate of Wentworth and Rhode Island School of Design. He travels widely and is constantly drinking in the architecture of the places he visits. Despite his culture and schooling, Jeff remains a native hilltowner through and through.

As with every other facet of his life, Jeffrey Scott Penn injects the joie de vivre that's part of his fibre into every professional relationship.

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You can contact Jeff by mail at:

77 Worthington Road
Huntington, Massachusetts 01050

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