“Cleveland Goes Modern: Design for the home 1930-1970” exhibit at the Beck Center curated by Nina Freedlander Gibans for the Cleveland Artists Foundation. The show captures the rush of excitement for modernism in the post-war period as dozens of cubist brick-and-glass homes with flat roofs began to dot the Cleveland suburban landscape.

The exhibit runs through Nov. 24 and has a speaker series that includes this Thursday’s (10/18) “Building Modern from the Architect's Standpoint” at 6 p.m. What was it like designing a "Modern" home in Cleveland during the mid-20th century? A conversation coordinated by Peter van Dijk and Richard Fleischman, with special guest architect Don Hisaka.