Latest Designs on Portland discussion: mid-century marvels with Atomic Ranch magazine

On Wednesday evening, our latest discussion in the Designs on Portland series at Design Within Reach, I will be talking with Jim Brown and Michelle Gringeri-Brown, editors and publishers of Atomic Ranch magazine. (And no, this is not the Hall of Fame Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown - nor is he the Godfather of Soul.)

Based out of Portland, the quarterly magazine celebrates modern homes from the 1940s through '60s, be it ranch style or more explicitly modern. What is the legacy of midcentury modern in Portland? Besides those houses by the big local architect names we know from that period, like Pietro Belluschi or John Yeon, where are the midcentury architectural gems of our city?

The discussion begins Wednesday at 6:30pm at DWR, in the Pearl District's Wieden + Kennedy building at 1200 NW Everett Street.