Roy Peter Frangiamore saw beauty in Craftsman-style homes, Chattahoochee fishing and the infield at Turner Field.

As an architect and a sportsman, he loved simple lines.

Family photo (ENLARGE)

A sportsman, Roy Peter Frangiamore played baseball in an over-40 league.

Mr. Frangiamore helped modernize the One Georgia Center skyscraper in Atlanta, renovate the city's Center for Puppetry Arts and design scores of other buildings, including the R.J. Wine Bar Cafe, a converted filling station that won the city of Atlanta's 1988 Urban Design Award.

But his daughter, Florentina Adams, always loved the homes he designed most. They were largely in the Southeast and the Caribbean.

"His houses had this modern, clean look to them," Mrs. Adams said, "but at the same time they looked classic, like they could stand the test of time."

Mr. Frangiamore, 67, died from a degenerative neurological disease July 27 at Hospice Atlanta. A memorial service is planned for Aug. 21. The body was cremated. Arrangements are being handled by H.M. Patterson & Son.

Known for his sharp wit, Mr. Frangiamore would regale his daughter with tales from a previous profession. "He insisted for many years that he had been a cowboy in Connecticut," Mrs. Adams said. "No, dogboy — that's what he called it. He said they'd ride dogs and herd cats across the front lawns of Connecticut. I would say, 'You should be catboys if you're herding cats.' He said, 'No, dogboys sounds better.' "

Mr. Frangiamore spent weekends fly-fishing in the Chattahoochee River and, come March, often would head south to see his beloved Atlanta Braves at spring training. He played baseball himself, in an over-40 league.

Of Sicilian descent, Mr. Frangiamore enjoyed many things Italian. He drank red wine from the country's north, drove Alfa Romeos through the streets of Atlanta and sprinkled Italian seasoning on the lemon chicken dish everyone called "Chicken a la Roy."

Maria Mixson, whose sister was once married to Mr. Frangiamore, said his Mediterranean flair was reflected in the brick, soft-pink home he designed for her on West Wesley Road in Atlanta. Mr. Frangiamore was a perfectionist, Mrs. Mixson said, from the woodwork to the clean roof line to the tray ceiling in the living room.

"I know one builder who was so impressed with Roy's architectural renderings that they had them framed," she said. "I have one that I'm going to frame, too."

Mr. Frangiamore was passionate about the Arts and Crafts style, which emphasizes handiwork and rebels against the ornate Victorian style that preceded it. He lived in a Craftsman-style home himself, in Midtown. And he filled it with Tiffany lamps and Stickley furniture.

"He was at the front edge of that field of collecting," said Kitty Farnham, a former curator of decorative arts at the High Museum. "Simplify the surfaces. Simplify the materials. It was a philosophical art movement."

As a guest lecturer at the museum, Mr. Frangiamore shared his knowledge of the movement and one of its most famous members — architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Mr. Frangiamore was curator of an exhibit on the movement as well as art nouveau and art deco. It was titled, in part, "A Thing of Beauty."

That's really what his life was about, Mrs. Adams said. "He loved beautiful things. In the furniture, flowers, food, wine, countries, people, his little car. He just had that style."

Friends and family will have the memorial at that West Wesley Road home Mr. Frangiamore designed. They'll gather on the porch, which features a giant redwood arbor covered in trumpet vine.

There they'll be able to look through the arch, past the limestone-edged pool and into the city where Mr. Frangiamore left all those clean, simple lines.

There are no other immediate survivors.