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- Eichler was born and raised in New York City. After earning a business degree at New York University (NYU), he moved to San Francisco to work in the family business.
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According to the 2002 book Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream, Eichler was born in New York in 1900 to Jewish immigrant parents. He studied business and moved to the Bay Area in 1925, then worked 20 years as the CFO of his in-law’s wholesale foods company.
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Joseph Eichler was a real estate developer known for developing subdivisions in the mid-century modern style. He played a pivotal role in bringing modern architecture to everyday families.
Eichler’s homes are often referred to as “California Modern,” and many of the home’s designs have inspired contemporary home design. Eichler homes typically feature: 1. Glass walls 2. Open floorplans 3. Post-and-beam construction 4. Low-sloping A-framed or flat roofs 5. Vertical wood siding 6. Clean lines 7. Skylights His work is heavily influenced...
Want to get your hands on an Eichler home? Many are still standing today, and several have been revamped, including two that are currently for sale.
Step into an Eichler home and you may just assume that the home was designed and built yesterday. Although many of his homes have been renovated over the years, the clean lines, exposed beams and glass walls are just as trendy and relevant today as they were in the 1950s and 1960s. Eichler was a man before his time, and his homes are still beloved ...
Jobs’ original partner in Apple, Steve Wozniak, did indeed grow up in an Eichler—a real one—in nearby Sunnyvale, as first revealed in an article in the winter 2001 Eichler Network newsletter, the precursor to CA-Modern magazine.
Joseph Leopold Eichler was born on June 25, 1900, in New York City, and raised around Sutton Place, Manhattan, where his father and mother ran a small toy store, and in The Bronx. His father was Austrian and his mother was German, and he was raised traditional Jewish. Eichler attended New York University (NYU) and earned a business degree.
Over the course of his career, famed midcentury developer Joseph Eichler built roughly 11,000 homes. By marrying the postwar trend for tract houses with architect-designed plans, Eichler offered...
Mar 16, 2015 · In Palm Springs, Calif., a $1 million home was just built — with plans resurrected from 1951. The original sold for about $15,000, and was called an Eichler, after developer Joseph Eichler,...
Born in New York to European Jewish parents, Eichler was raised in a politically liberal family that revered Franklin Roosevelt, and grew to maturity in the culturally diverse community of New York City.
