Portman Pictures

Harvard GSD's dean, Mohsen Mostafavi, and photographer Iwan Baan collaborated on a new book about architect John Portman.

Courtesy Harvard Graduate School of Design and Lars Müller Publishers

Featuring essays by Preston Scott Cohen and Jennifer Bonner, among others, a new book edited by Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) dean Mohsen Mostafavi, Intl. Assoc. AIA, examines the work of Atlanta architect John Portman, FAIA. Portman’s America: & Other Speculations (GSD and Lars Müller Publishers, 2017) includes commissioned shots by Iwan Baan. “The resulting photographs, rather than being formal or idealized images of buildings, capture the view as if in a state of distraction; Portman’s architecture, and by extension Portman’s America, is presented as it is today, for all to see,” Mostafavi writes.

Iwan Baan

Courtesy Harvard Graduate School of Design and Lars Müller Publishers

Images by Iwan Baan/Courtesy Harvard Graduate School of Design and Lars Müller Publishers

Iwan Baan

About the Author

Sara Johnson

Sara Johnson is the former associate editor, design news at ARCHITECT. Previously, she was a fellow at CityLab. Her work has also appeared in San Francisco, San Francisco Brides, California Brides, DCist, Patchwork Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.

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