John Portman

Ruins of the future – how John Portman's architecture made Atlanta the backdrop for dystopia:

Filmmakers use architecture to represent societies that are forming or collapsing, and conceptual structures are too eccentric to symbolise the collective groups that dominate dystopian storylines. Portman’s work fits on film in part because his design philosophy straddles the modernism and brutalism handed down to his generation from predecessors such as Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer, who strove to incorporate functionality and community into their buildings. … All the flesh has been removed and you just see the architectural bones. Portman’s buildings would make very beautiful ruins, because the essence of them is so powerful and so direct.