John Portman, Paolo Riani, 1990, architecture, Very Good + hardcover & dust jacket

New York, New York: The American Institute of Architects Press, 1990, 9 ¾” x 13 ½”, 246 pp.

ISBN: 1558350292

Very Good + folio, black paper over boards with white lettering to front cover and spine, toning to front and back pastedown and endpapers. Very Good + dust jacket, white with an illustrated black-and-white image to the front, black lettering to front cover and spine, price sticker to bottom of back cover and on front flap, very slight soiling to back cover, 246 pp. Principal photography by Michael Portman and Timothy Hursley with full-color images of architecture and architectural blueprints. Interview with John Portman by Paul Goldberger. A study of John Portman, the American architect and developer, whose innovative use of dramatic atriums and modernist design reshaped hotels and commercial spaces, leaving a lasting mark on late twentieth-century architecture.