Eres portman
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AN IMPACTFUL
PIONEER
John Calvin “Jack” Portman III, visionary architect, devoted father, doting grandfather, impassioned artist and trailblazing businessman, passed away of natural causes at the age of 71 on Friday, August 28 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. Son of famed Atlanta architect John Calvin Portman Jr. and Jan Portman, Jack was born November 3, 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia. Jack graduated from The Lovett School in Atlanta, then earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He began practicing architecture in 1973 at John Portman & Associates, rising from an Apprentice Architect to become Chairman of the firm, now known as Portman Architects.
Jack took over leadership of Portman Architects following the death of his father, John C. Portman Jr., in 2017. While exceedingly successful as a real estate developer, Jack was passionate about being an architect, particularly the creation of meaningful architecture with a focus on culturally
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By Ann W. Hoevel
When people describe John Portman, they need to use a lot of commas.
He was an architect, a developer, a city planner, an artist, a futurist, and most of all a risk-taker. As an alumnus of the College of Design—he graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture—his accomplishments resonate with the diverse educational philosophy that the College has held for many decades.
Portman, who died December 29, 2017, at the age of 93, had a multidisciplinary approach to the built environment. He had a habit of combining expertise in industries that were quite different, in ways that no one before him thought about.
He epitomized a way of thinking that merged the human experience with nature, neighborhoods, and cities. He was constantly curious. He was willing to operate contrary to the normal pattern. He persevered and evolved in the face of criticism.
As home to some of the most out-of-the-box thinkers at Georgia Tech, the College is devoted to that ideal.
An Entrepreneurial Architect from Atlanta
Portman grew up and went
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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. He 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 would expand to become the main center of hotel and office space in Downtown Atlanta, taking over
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