Portland praised in new 'Midcentury Modern Architecture Travel Guide'

You drive by a modern building and it stops you in your tracks. You study it and then wonder: Who was the architect? When was it constructed? What's the rest of the story? If the structure is significant and in Portland, Seattle, Palm Springs or San Francisco, it might be included in the new book, "Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA" by Sam Lubell with photographs by Darren Bradley .