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since 1993, the eichler network has been dedicated to supporting the lifestyle of the thousands of homeowners in northern and southern california who own an' eichler' home. eichlers are architect - designed mid - century modern homes built by merchant builder joe eichler between 1949 and 1974. in recent years, the eichler network expanded the scope of its homeowner base to include thousands of additional mid - century homeowners in sacramento and southern california who live in streng bros. , palmer & krisel, cliff may, and other eichler - like mid - century modern classics .
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in addition to eichler network online, the eichler network publishes ca - modern, a quarterly full - color hard - copy magazine which contains a mix of features on california' s rich legacy of mid - century modern homes and the people that live in them, home maintenance solutions, and other features that focus on the modern home and its lifestyle. the eichler network also publishes its annual home maintenance directory, which profiles the service companies that maintain the homes. these publications are mailed free to a select 20, 000 eichler, streng, and other select homeowners (with a readership of 42, 000 adult consumers) in northern and southern california at their modern home address. paid subscriptions are also available .
developing homes was a second career for him ,
said architect paul adamson, who, with marty arbunich of the eichler network, wrote a book about eichler homes .
he wanted to bring some of the same features of that house, such as indoor - outdoor living, to the middle class .
the eichler network supports a home - maintenance referral service of participating service companies (from remodeling to radiant heat and roofing maintenance) and products (from specially designed insulated windows to customized exterior siding). for nearly 25 years, these hand - picked service companies and experts have banded together to offer their expertise as needed by mid - century modern owners. the eichler network' s team goal, as its motto so aptly puts it, is to emphasize quality workmanship while
preserving the wonderful world of eichler homes
and other mid - century modern classics .
while complaints directed at our affiliated companies are rare, they do not go unchecked. for the past decade the eichler network has offered a gratis service to our homeowner base to intervene and assist with the facilitation of legitimate complaints between them and any actively affiliated preferred service companies .
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the eichler network promotes only those companies whose services and products reinforce the unique modern homes and lifestyles of our homeowner base, exhibit a satisfactory record of providing quality service, and maintain good standing with both the better business bureau and the contractors state license board. they include the companies that appear in this section .
for fans of developer joseph eichler, the high point undoubtedly will be the
eye on eichlers
tour. nearly 40 eichler homes in san rafael' s lucas valley and terra linda neighborhoods will be open for viewing .
san fernando valley - thousands of eichler, palmer & krisel, and other modern homes in numerous towns throughout the valley .
adamson also points out that remodeling or updating an eichler gives a homeowner a chance to add more energy - efficient glass and insulation .
eichler _ 0152 { 2 / 7 / 06 } other eichlers in the neighborhood. this is a real estate cover story on the legacy of eichler houses, those flat - top, glass - backed mid - century modern designs that took the area by... more
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eichler: modernism rebuilds the american dream
by paul adamson, marty arbunich and ernie braun (gibbs smith, 2002) .
the network' s vigilance has paid off over the past 15 years, bringing a high level of quality of service and customer satisfaction to our homeowner base, a receptive audience to our participating companies, success to our own business model, and personal gratification to all involved .
the movement to preserve and restore eichler homes has been going strong for at least a decade in northern california, nurtured by a san francisco - based organization known as the eichler network. but nationally, postwar tract houses are just beginning to receive the attention of the preservation community. as ken bernstein, director of preservation for the los angeles conservancy, pointed out ,
only about 15 percent of los angeles has ever been looked at .
the getty conservation institute, he said, is now working with the city planning department to survey the remaining 85 percent .
when the doorbell rings at cassendre de le fortrie and dennis lynch’s eichler home in the city of orange—and they’re not expecting anyone—they know just what to expect .
- - loni nagwani: urltoken not only lists eichlers that nagwani is selling, but it also has resources for home improvements and an entertaining segment hgtv did on the restoration of her eichler .
eichler launched an aggressive and sophisticated marketing campaign to introduce his houses to the american public. to many people, accustomed to more traditional houses, the flat - roofed homes must have looked unusual .
marin county has one of the largest numbers of homes built and designed in the midcentury modern style. catherine munson of lucas valley properties, who was an associate of joseph eichler and serves as honorary chair of the events, said in a statement that many of the homes are preserved or have been carefully updated. in addition, docents schooled in the basic elements of eichler design will be available at each home .
so does the mechanical appeal to folks like dave arango, who’s been building radios and other audio gear since childhood. he and his family share their walnut creek eichler home with ‘vinny, ’ a 1952 seeburg model 100c .
joseph eichler was a developer with a plan: he wanted to make high - style, modern home design affordable for the masses. the idea reportedly came to him while he was living in a frank lloyd wright house in hillsborough .
in 1950, after experimenting with some prefab projects, eichler hired the bay area architecture firm of anshen and allen (later he also worked with architects a. quincy jones and frederick e. emmons) to create an affordable modern home .
orange / long beach area - eichler, cliff may, and other modern homes in orange, long beach, seal beach, huntington beach, lakewood, costa mesa, newport beach, tustin, santa ana, and many other cities .
eichler worked with a handful of prominent california architects, including a. quincy jones, who designed a case study house. but eichler' s success perhaps owed less to the architects he employed than to his crack publicity photographer, ernie braun, who concocted and promoted a sophisticated but casual lifestyle. braun' s photos of the eichler houses showed families dividing their time between sunny rooms and perfectly groomed backyards, the adults seemingly as likely to skip rope as the children. what eichler sold from 1948 until the late 1960' s wasn' t architecture but happiness. each housing development eichler erected represented a variation on the same program for happy family life. in the balboa highlands tract, the clean wood - and - concrete - block facades were designed to conceal the interior from the street. but inside, a whole world opens up: behind the front door of each house is an open - air atrium. frank nolan and his partner, jaime flores, have transformed theirs into a zen garden carpeted with smooth round stones. a door from the atrium leads into the house itself, and it is easy to grasp the appeal of eichler' s plan: light - flooded rooms, exposed beams that support an elegantly simple roof and floor - to - ceiling glass intended to further the notion that interior and exterior are one and the same, a central tenet of california modernism. out back are a verdant yard with a swimming pool, a giant bronze buddha and, in the distance, the santa susanna mountains, green from months of rain .
eichler _ 0152 { 2 / 7 / 06 } other eichlers in the neighborhood. this is a real estate cover story on the legacy of eichler houses, those flat - top, glass - backed mid - century modern designs that took the area by storm in the 50s and 60s and are still wildly popular today. francois cornillon and his wife, laure, have painstakingly restored their sunnyvale eichler to look as if it was built yesterday rather than half a century ago. they will meet us and give us a tour. they have agreed to be photographed. also, they live in a neighborhood where all the houses are eichlers. event on { 2 / 7 / 06 } in { walnut creek }, ca. photo: mark costantini / san francisco chronicle. less
what would eichler think if he could see his homes today? adamson believes that the developer believed that his work was important and would be happy to see people still devoted to his ideas, although he might not be so happy about some of the color and material choices .
there' s a story i' ve heard that said eichler was driving around one day when he spotted someone repainting one of his houses ,
said adamson .
he supposedly got out of the car and told him to stop ruining the house .
of course, kathleen haley, whose first - person essay
unhappy with eichler
( home & garden, july 29) touched off a flurry of protest letters and blogs, is not alone in her complaints. conventional (and some would say misguided) wisdom claims that flat roofs leak, dark walls (many eichlers have mahogany paneling) make rooms dark, and the houses are too small. among the answers eichler devotees have is a simple one: maintenance .
these houses were constructed with inexpensive materials over 30 years ago ,
said adamson .
almost any material will wear out over time .
tom borsellino, a san jose eichler owner, has a more basic solution: keep the greenery trimmed .
a lot of people allow plants and trees to grow over the big windows ,
he said .
of course, then it will be dark. the answer is to keep things pruned .
flat roofs need to be maintained if you don' t want them to leak ,
said loni nagwani, an eichler owner and real estate agent specialist .
if you don' t take care of them and clean out the downspouts, they will leak sooner or later .
nagwani also advises her clients who want more light to add skylights .
through careful refinement, eichler was able to hone his manufacturing process to produce the homes in a cost - efficient way .
it was like an assembly - line process ,
said adamson .
he had the home parts constructed at a central location and then shipped to the building site. he also made use of standard building materials in a creative way .
balboa highlands was one of the last projects eichler completed before his foray into urban development in the mid - 60' s nearly bankrupted him. within a decade, the neighborhood he had envisioned had begun to change. the valley' s citrus groves gave way to ever more houses. by the 80' s, the real money was in newer homes, mostly mediterranean and spanish models .
advertisements featuring the photography of ernest braun helped demonstrate how the houses worked by showing models posing as homeowners in the house .
no one had ever done that before ,
said adamson, whose book ,
eichler: modernism rebuilds the american dream ,
features many braun photographs .
most architectural photography was stark and cold. these ads made the homes look warm, livable and desirable .
nolan' s house was one of 120 built in the 1960' s by the developer joseph eichler in a san fernando valley subdivision called balboa highlands, 26 miles northwest of downtown los angeles. nolan and some of his neighbors want to have their neighborhood designated a historic district, which won' t quite create an enclave of unsullied 60' s modernity but will keep the threat of mcmansions at bay .
economics may apply the pressure for her. houses in balboa highlands were originally priced at $ 30, 000. in 1966, hora paid $ 42, 000 for his, which, he noted, was not cheap. in 1993, nolan and flores paid $ 260, 000. it was a pretty good deal. the eichler cachet, combined with prevailing real - estate trends, has driven prices up to more than $ 600, 000 for a fixer - upper and more than $ 700, 000 for a house that has been well restored .
eichler, who was responsible for the construction of some 11, 000 homes, mostly in the san francisco bay area, was the last and most successful of a breed now largely extinct. in the years after world war ii, commercial home - builders all over the country, but particularly in the west, began experimenting with new methods of construction and new styles of architecture. abraham levitt and his sons applied mass - production methods to building thousands of tiny ranch houses and cape cods on long island. other developers, trying to remake the american dream, combined ideas from european modernists - - simple geometric forms, functionalism, flexible space - - with a new world élan .
like most home styles, eichlers have fallen in and out of favor. today, with the current obsession with modern design, they appear to be more popular than ever. it' s the original ideas that have stood the test of time: open - plan living with living room, dining room and kitchen connected; the blurring of the lines between indoors and outdoors with atriums, window walls, skylights and sliding glass doors; and leaving the construction visible - - i. e. the ceiling beams and boards. the classic eichler materials have even come back into vogue: radiant heating, cork floors, wood paneling and vinyl tile have all experienced a recent surge in popularity .
bernstein said he strongly believes that the conservancy should back the h. p. o. z. effort in balboa highlands, as it did in mar vista .
both were examples of really bringing the tenets of modernism to the masses in an affordable manner ,
he explained .
and both also are uniquely intact, surprisingly intact, given the vagaries of the real - estate market here in l. a. and the pressures that you see upon individual neighborhoods. and we also felt that if steps weren' t taken soon, they could become more significantly threatened in the future .
some of the early eichler - home buyers are still in balboa highlands. edgar law, who earned his degree in architecture, bought his house in 1969 because, he said ,
it has principles that i believe in .
he was referring to the openness of the design, though he and his wife, fay, as african - americans, also benefited from one of eichler' s political principles: he had a nondiscrimination policy, which was not the norm in 1960' s suburban los angeles. john hora, a cinematographer, bought his house in 1966 .
it was so weird - looking that i wasn' t going to get out of the car ,
he told me, taking a break from his yard work .
but i walked in, and i was converted .
nolan, an elementary - school teacher, and flores, a graphic designer, so impeccably restored their house that it probably looks better than it did when it was completed in 1964. biondo' s house is equally well preserved, painted pistachio green to match her 1956 oldsmobile rocket. but just down the block are eichlers that have been altered to suit a more conventional suburban aesthetic. at one address, eichler' s a - frame model, distinguished by an unenclosed peaked roof over the front door - - the architects intended it as a car port - - is covered with a new red - clay tile roof and a line of classical columns out front. another house has been stuccoed over, the roof turned into a giant gable, like the prop from a lesson about the properties of isosceles triangles .
it may also confuse some of the neighbors, who may not have thought that buying a 60' s tract house would entail accepting a small role in modernist architectural history. stuart frolick, who bought a house that had been radically altered by a previous owner, an engineer, told me, unapologetically, that he can' t afford to return the house to its original state. besides, his wife isn' t into modernism .
she would like to gingerbread the place up ,
frolick said ,
and i resist .
we clocked over 500 people coming through our neighborhood ,
adriene biondo said recently .
we had vintage cars cruising up and down the street that day. people were tuned into the oldies station. it was a really exciting moment .
biondo, a short, roundish 49 - year - old with the breathy voice of a chanteuse, was talking about the 2000
how modern was my valley
tour as if it happened yesterday. sponsored by the modern committee, which she heads - - a furiously active branch of the city' s dominant preservation organization, the los angeles conservancy - - the tour brought a flood of tourists into the neighborhood. it also focused attention on the architecture about which biondo is most passionate: the homes, including her own, built by eichler .
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before napster, facebook, youtube, and musical ring tones allowed the music obsessed to share their favorite songs with friends, strangers, and even enemies, americans turned to the jukebox .
standing at their door will be jiving jukebox fans dying to hear their ami continental, topped with a flying saucer - like wing .
“it is literally like we have friends show up at our door to show their friends dean martin’s jukebox, ” cassendre says. “it’s almost a source of comedy. ”
yes, dino, too, loved jukeboxes. the famous crooner listened to this one, cassendre says, while playing tennis. “our ami is the pride of the house, and the conversation piece of every party, ” she says. “it' s our main music source in the house. ”
the sound has got something to do with it, certainly. “the sound of buck owens on a jukebox is so much richer than on an ipod, ” cassendre says. “i like it way better. ”
like many jukebox fans, dave can restore them himself. “i replaced every electronic component, all the tubes, capacitors, ” he says of an earlier version of vinny. “that it started working when i was done was a thrill. ”
the look also has a lot to do with the appeal of vintage jukeboxes. gerry parson, who’s installed a 1952 seeburg in his palmer and krisel - designed condo in palm springs’ ocotillo lodge, admires its joyous, mid - century modern design, complete with wraparound glass, and plastic pilasters that contain rotating color cylinders for “a nice animation feature. ”
starting in the mid - 1920s, when electrical amplification first allowed the sound to really soar, jukeboxes became action central in hundreds of thousands of taverns, pool halls, restaurants, tourist camps, and just about every place else people gathered—except funeral homes .
hits became hits because they were played on jukeboxes. records were pressed expressly for jukebox play, and operators and manufacturers, including david rockola, owner of the rock - ola manufacturing corp. , trafficked in payola and hobnobbed with the mob .
yes, rockola was his real name, and his company came along well before the term ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ was invented .
entire genres of recorded music flourished primarily because the records were played on jukeboxes when few radio stations would touch them—rhythm and blues, hillbilly, polka .
jukeboxes grew so popular they crowded dance bands off the floor—and led to a musicians’ strike in 1942 and 1943 that halted all recording .
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at the time, it was unprecedented. no other developer wanted to spend the money to have tract homes designed by architects .
the firm came up with houses that had an open plan, post and beam construction, whole walls of glass, and radiant heating ,
said adamson .
those were the kinds of things you might find in an expensive, custom - built home at the time, but certainly not in a house for the masses .
adding features such as sliding glass doors and skylights to the suburban homes springing up all over the country contradicted the ideas most developers had about how to make a profit .
although the homes were never popular on a wide scale, they were a smash with a certain audience .
an interesting subset of people - - engineers, architects, and modern art and design lovers - - were intrigued by the homes ,
said adamson .
they found their streamlined look and the way they expand into the garden appealing .
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the fabulous' 50s meet eye - catching eichlers during a september weekend in marin county. on sept. 15 - 17, hospice of marin foundation presents open hearts, open homes, a benefit for hospice of marin .
sept. 15: 1950s - inspired sock hop and classic car show, 6: 30 p. m. - midnight at mcinnis park golf center in san rafael. $ 75; tickets are available at urltoken .
sept. 16: eye on eichlers tour, 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. visitors ages 12 and older can tour five houses for $ 30, or all houses on the tour for $ 40. register at urltoken. tickets also available the day of the event at terra linda community center, 670 del ganado road, san rafael .
sept. 17: 1950s family fun fair and classic car show, 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. at the mall at northgate, northgate drive and las gallinas avenue in san rafael. admission is free; donations are appreciated .
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frank nolan, casually dressed in an olive drab polo shirt and blue jeans, occupied a white leather brno chair set off by the room' s gleaming philippine - mahogany paneling .
one never wants to come across as a design snob, especially as it pertains to one' s neighbors ,
nolan said gingerly .
we know that having a good neighbor is so much more important than what color they paint their house or how they choose to landscape. but there just seems to be a great disparity between the potential that we see in this neighborhood and then what you actually do see when you drive down the street .
balboa highlands was constructed as a solidly middle - class neighborhood - - the houses typically had several bedrooms and measured 2, 200 square feet - - at a time when some california home - builders believed that buyers craved the drama of l. a.' s experimental case study houses, built between 1945 and 1966 under the direction of arts and architecture magazine. the most famous case study house - - the one made into an icon by julius shulman' s photo of two young women, seated in an all - glass living room, who appear to be floating above the hollywood hills - - was built in 1960 on a budget of $ 13, 500, roughly the price of a standard tract house at the time .
while pitched preservation battles in most cities are usually fought over beloved public buildings, in southern california they often center on private homes - - especially when those homes were designed by california' s great midcentury architects, like richard neutra, r. m. schindler and john lautner. these battles tend to get thorny, pitting as they do the sacred rights of the property owner against equally deep - seated, and often rather abstract, notions of historic value. the city' s historic preservation overlay zone ordinance, which biondo and nolan said they hope will protect their neighborhood, tries to split the difference by rewarding, but not demanding, compliance from homeowners .
enacted in 1979, the h. p. o. z. ordinance makes it difficult, though not impossible, to alter the facade of a house that is considered a
contributing
part of a protected neighborhood; that is, one that preserves the building' s original features. but it also allows for the continued existence of
noncontributing
buildings in the neighborhood. the owners of
renovated
houses don' t have to change a thing if they don' t want to - - but they get a break on their property taxes if they do .
there are currently 20 h. p. o. z.' s in los angeles county. some are clusters of victorian houses or bungalows. currently, just one consists of postwar architecture: mar vista, a tract of 52 modest, rectangular houses just east of venice beach, became an h. p. o. z. in 2003. a 1948 collaboration between the populist architect gregory ain and the landscape designer garrett eckbo, mar vista is a lush oasis of 1, 100 - square - foot homes laid out as efficiently as cabin cruisers. the little houses originally sold for $ 12, 000 and now fetch as much as $ 950, 000 .
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the buyers for eichlers by this time were mainly immigrants from the middle east, asia or russia. they had probably never seen those ernie braun photos, and they dealt with the idiosyncratic look of the eichlers by hiding it. they wanted their houses to look like other houses in the area: stuccoed and columned .
nolan and flores, who bought their home in 1993, were among the first of an influx of design connoisseurs. they were also the ones, together with biondo, who circulated the petition to have their neighborhood considered for h. p. o. z. status. most people, flores said, even those whose homes had been significantly altered ,
were o. k. with the idea of the h. p. o. z. as long as it was to improve the neighborhood .
hoping that some owners of extreme renovations would try to undo the damage, he tried to stress that
contributing
houses in the h. p. o. z. would receive tax benefits. one couple, flores recalled, didn' t like the implication that houses in the original style were somehow more important :
they were like,' why ?
' but for many, the tax breaks just aren' t enough of an incentive to pay for restoration .
though roughly two - thirds of homeowners eventually signed the petition, the h. p. o. z. status of balboa highlands remains uncertain. the
historic resources survey ,
conducted for the city' s cultural heritage commission to determine how many of the houses in the district will be considered
contributing ,
can' t be done because the office in charge of the surveys recently lost its financing. and while biondo holds out hope that the h. p. o. z. designation is not far off, she is careful to modulate her zeal .
i don' t want people to feel pressured to do anything ,
she emphasized .
the h. p. o. z. is meant to appeal to and attract a new type of homeowner. the designation doesn' t just protect the look of the neighborhood; it' s also an advertisement .
i think bringing in like - minded people is really key ,
biondo explained .
that' s been the change over the last eight years, wouldn' t you say ?
biondo continued ,
we try very hard, when the house goes on the market... .
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eichler network is an american company that produces the quarterly ca-modern magazine , a website , and weekly email news flashes about mid-century modern ( mcm ) architecture and design in california . it also publishes a directory of contractors and other service providers who focus on modern home preservation and improvement . ca-modern was founded as a newsletter in 1993 by marty arbunich and a former business partner . central to the eichler network 's mission is the preservation of eichler homes and other mid-century modern homes , which are notable and highly valued as representative of modern design principles promoted by the architect frank lloyd wright . the eichler network has been recognized for its work in preserving the unique character of mid-century modern homes , having been featured in the new york times and in preservation , the magazine for the national trust for historic preservation . the eichler network has also partnered with the los angeles conservancy in its mission to preserve southern california 's mid-century modern legacy . the eichler network and its magazine ca-modern recently became part of the national conversation surrounding the life of apple innovator steve jobs , who as a child lived in a mid-century modern home . eichler network sends its magazine free to owners of eichler homes , which are primarily in northern california but with several hundred in southern california ( and three in upstate new york ) . it earns revenue by selling advertising to contractors , real estate agents and other firms that focus on mid-century modern homes . all contractors are vetted by eichler network . the eichler network ’s website provides an archive with original content and hundreds of articles from the magazine , including pieces on home improvement , profiles of modern designers and artists , and nostalgic features on cool jazz , reliving the ' fifties , and jukeboxes . the site includes homes for sale , service providers , a readers forum ( chatterbox lounge ) on such topics as home maintenance and a rec room for reader recommendations on companies and products . over the years eichler network has increased its focus on the aesthetics and historical value of eichler and other mid-century modern homes . it " counsels a new generation on taking care of quirky , aging modernist houses , " according to the new york times . eichler network held a conference on the subject in 2002 , and marty arbunich co-authored the 2002 book , eichler : modernism rebuilds the american dream , by paul adamson . eichler network also spearheaded the successful effort to place two eichler neighborhoods in the bay area on the national register for historic places in 2005 . 
eichler network is an american company that produces the quarterly ca-modern magazine, a website, and weekly email news flashes about mid-century modern (mcm) architecture and design in california. it also publishes a directory of contractors and other service providers who focus on modern home preservation and improvement. ca-modern was founded as a newsletter in 1993 by marty arbunich and a former business partner. central to the eichler network's mission is the preservation of eichler homes and other mid-century modern homes, which are notable and highly valued as representative of modern design principles promoted by the architect frank lloyd wright. the eichler network has been recognized for its work in preserving the unique character of mid-century modern homes, having been featured in the new york times and in preservation, the magazine for the national trust for historic preservation. the eichler network has also partnered with the los angeles conservancy in its mission to preserve southern california's mid-century modern legacy. the eichler network and its magazine ca-modern recently became part of the national conversation surrounding the life of apple innovator steve jobs, who as a child lived in a mid-century modern home. eichler network sends its magazine free to owners of eichler homes, which are primarily in northern california but with several hundred in southern california (and three in upstate new york). it earns revenue by selling advertising to contractors, real estate agents and other firms that focus on mid-century modern homes. all contractors are vetted by eichler network. the eichler network ’s website provides an archive with original content and hundreds of articles from the magazine, including pieces on home improvement, profiles of modern designers and artists, and nostalgic features on cool jazz, reliving the' fifties, and jukeboxes. the site includes homes for sale, service providers, a readers forum (chatterbox lounge) on such topics as home maintenance and a rec room for reader recommendations on companies and products. over the years eichler network has increased its focus on the aesthetics and historical value of eichler and other mid-century modern homes. it " counsels a new generation on taking care of quirky, aging modernist houses, " according to the new york times. eichler network held a conference on the subject in 2002, and marty arbunich co-authored the 2002 book, eichler: modernism rebuilds the american dream, by paul adamson. eichler network also spearheaded the successful effort to place two eichler neighborhoods in the bay area on the national register for historic places in 2005.
eichler network is an american company that produces the quarterly ca-modern magazine, a website, and weekly email news flashes about mid-century modern (mcm) architecture and design in california. it also publishes a directory of contractors and other service providers who focus on modern home preservation and improvement. ca-modern was founded as a newsletter in 1993 by marty arbunich and a former business partner. central to the eichler network's mission is the preservation of eichler homes and other mid-century modern homes, which are notable and highly valued as representative of modern design principles promoted by the architect frank lloyd wright. the eichler network has been recognized for its work in preserving the unique character of mid-century modern homes, having been featured in the new york times and in preservation, the magazine for the national trust for historic preservation. the eichler network has also partnered with the los angeles conservancy in its mission to preserve southern california's mid-century modern legacy. the eichler network and its magazine ca-modern recently became part of the national conversation surrounding the life of apple innovator steve jobs, who as a child lived in a mid-century modern home. eichler network sends its magazine free to owners of eichler homes, which are primarily in northern california but with several hundred in southern california (and three in upstate new york). it earns revenue by selling advertising to contractors, real estate agents and other firms that focus on mid-century modern homes. all contractors are vetted by eichler network. the eichler network ’s website provides an archive with original content and hundreds of articles from the magazine, including pieces on home improvement, profiles of modern designers and artists, and nostalgic features on cool jazz, reliving the' fifties, and jukeboxes. the site includes homes for sale, service providers, a readers forum (chatterbox lounge) on such topics as home maintenance and a rec room for reader recommendations on companies and products. over the years eichler network has increased its focus on the aesthetics and historical value of eichler and other mid-century modern homes. it " counsels a new generation on taking care of quirky, aging modernist houses, " according to the new york times. eichler network held a conference on the subject in 2002, and marty arbunich co-authored the 2002 book, eichler: modernism rebuilds the american dream, by paul adamson. eichler network also spearheaded the successful effort to place two eichler neighborhoods in the bay area on the national register for historic places in 2005.