Jova arrived in Atlanta at the beginning of a period of great change. Over the next five decades, Jova and later his firm, Jova/Daniels/Busby, helped transform the state capital into a regional metropolis, designing some of its signature buildings and molding the face it would show to the world. As Stanley Abercrombie observes in his foreword, Jova/Daniels/Busby “was indisputably a producer of modern design, but I think we today can often see in that design an underlying symmetry and order.” This timeless melding of the modern and the classic is evident in many of the city’s landmark structures, including Colony Square, the original Underground Atlanta, the City Hall addition, and the Carter Presidential Center.