John C. Portman Jr. | |
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Born | John Calvin Portman Jr. December 4, 1924 Walhalla, South Carolina, U.S. |
Died | December 29, 2017 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | (aged 93)
Occupation | Architect |
Children | 6 |
Relatives | Traylor Howard (daughter-in-law) |
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Practice | John Portman & Associates |
John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer widely known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria. Portman also had a particularly large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center complex serving as downtown's business and tourism anchor from the 1970s onward.[1] The Peachtree Center area includes Portman-designed Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels. Portman's plans typically deal with primitives in the forms of symmetrical squares and circles.