About this title: James Collier Means (1904-79), known simply as Jimmy, was a Georgia architect of the "old school"; he was a steadfast classicist when the suburban ranch house, with a streamlined Ford in the carport, had become an ideal for a postwar futuristic world. He once casually observed that a modern church building with an oddly angled metallic steeple was "unnecessarily ugly." This droll and definitive way of speaking endeared him to his clients, many of whom became his close friends, finding him and his work irresistible. His work was his life.
Means learned on the job, rather than in a college of ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Southern Architecture Foundation, Savannah, GA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780932958228ISBN:0932958222
Description: New in New jacket. Quarto. 183 pp; with 250 color illustrations; perspective and measured drawings; elevations, floor plans and details; appendices; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. James Means (1904-1979), a classicist, grounded his practice in the old ways of designing and building based on the human scale of the proportional systems of the classical orders, and in the use of brick, stone and native heart pine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Golden Coast Publishing Company
Date Published: 2001-10
ISBN-13:9780932958228ISBN:0932958222
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Description: Good. 0932958222 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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