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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon GREEN, Horace WE Born: fl 1946 Architect SACA: Reg No: 964 Year registered: 1946 DipArch. (Witwatersrand). In the early 1950s he collaborated with Ugo TOMASELLI on the Spheris Centre Kensington, 'low-key, almost anonymous architecture' ... ''on the simplicity and directness of the Modern movement'' (Chipkin 193:240). In 1959 and still in 1969 he was working for BERNARD JANKS and PARTNERS at 835 Maritime House, Loveday Street, (Box 4398), Johannesburg. Here he was 'a senior man responsible for clear, immaculate working drawings and design in a modern vernacular idiom until in the 1960s and 1970s he discovered a talent for Tudorbethan [sic] apartment blocks for Sandton's new genteel classes (Chipokin 1993:249) (Transvaal Inst. practicing. ISAA Yearbook, 1959) All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books citing GREEN Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pp 240, 249 ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 91, 185 ISAA. 1969. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1968-1969 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1968-1969. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 93, 119