Archinect - News 2024-12-22T05:52:32-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/123135158/npr-s-morning-edition-discusses-eichler-for-the-masses NPR's Morning Edition discusses Eichler for the masses Archinect 2015-03-17T17:34:00-04:00 >2015-03-23T20:35:15-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a3/a350980958462e4eab9f4e1a5d287438?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Single-story homes, with open spaces, floor-to-ceiling glass walls and clean, serene lines. Bernie fell in love. He paid $30,000, and raised three children in the house. In fact, Parents Magazine once said an Eichler was the best house in the U.S. for raising children.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> https://archinect.com/news/article/25946269/did-steve-jobs-modernist-childhood-home-by-eichler-incubate-his-design-vision Did Steve Jobs’ modernist childhood home by Eichler incubate his design vision? Andrew Michler 2011-11-01T14:05:22-04:00 >2011-11-01T18:05:07-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2j/2jncmeykpw4suy67.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It turns out that Job&rsquo;s masterful use of modern design could have been incubated by growing up in a home which was built by the father of the California modernist movement, Joseph Eichler. The idea is not too far fetched - in Walter Issicason's biography on the design pioneer, Jobs admits "that his appreciation for Eichler homes instilled in him a passion for making nicely designed products for the mass market".</p></em><br /><br /><p> From&nbsp;<a href="http://inhabitat.com/steve-jobs-modern-childhood-home-may-have-incubated-his-design-vision/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inhabitat</a></p>