On the Web
The Eichler Network is an excellent resource on all things Eichler.
Eichler Homes of Southern California is a personal website run by realtor Stephanie Raffel. It offers information about Eichlers in Southern California.
Balboa Highlands is the only Eichler development in L.A. County, in Granada Hills. This attractive site contains quite a bit of information about the development, which was built in 1963 and 1964.
Eichler Archives offers a sampling of the historical material collected by Eichler enthusiasts Ruth Freeman and Steve Cabella (Note: this site requires the Macromedia Flash player, it is not accessible with some web browsers).
Carmen Nicholls offers custom made Eichler house numbers in the original style at reasonable prices.
Books
Eichler : Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream is a new book published in October, 2002. This collaborative effort by Paul Adamson and Marty Arbunich, profusely illustrated with vintage photos by Ernie Braun, is the definitive work on Eichler homes. Buy a copy here.
Eichler Homes - Design for Living, published in 1995, was the first book written about Eichlers. It contains many beautiful color photos of Eichler homes as they exist today.
A. Quincy Jones, by Cory Bruckner, is the first ever biography of one of Eichler's principal architects who went to achieve international recognition for his residential and commercial designs. Published in May, 2002, by Phaidon Press.
Raphael Soriano, by Wolfgang Wagener, is the first monograph on this important mid-century modern architect who was a passionate believer in steel construction. He designed a prototype steel house for Eichler Homes that was built in Palo Alto in 1955. Published in October, 2002, by Phaidon Press.
Architects
Greenmeadow Architects are K.C. and Mark Marcinik specialize in restoring Eichlers in the Bay Area (Note: this site requires the Macromedia Flash player, it is not accessible with some web browsers).
