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John C. Portman Jr.
American architect (1924–2017)
John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturisticarchitect 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.
Early life and career
Portman was born to John C. Portman Sr. and Edna Rochester Portman.
John portman hotelsHe had five sisters. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1950. His firm completed the Merchandise Mart (now AmericasMart) in downtown Atlanta in 1961. The multi-block Peachtree Center was begun in 1965 and wou
