John C. Portman Jr.

John C. Portman Jr.
Born
John Calvin Portman Jr.

(1924-12-04)December 4, 1924
Walhalla, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedDecember 29, 2017(2017-12-29) (aged 93)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
OccupationArchitect
Children6
RelativesTraylor Howard (daughter-in-law)
Awards
  • AIA Medal for Innovations in Hotel Design
  • AIA Silver Medal Award for Innovative Design
  • Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence
PracticeJohn 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.

  1. ^ "Private Enterprise Breathes New Life Into Old Cities". AMA Management Digest. 2. American Management Association: 25–26. 1979.