Eichler Home / Gustave Carlson Design

Eichler Home / Gustave Carlson Design

Textual content description offered by the architects. Architect-artist Gustave Carlson — whose eponymous residential structure and design apply works on {custom} renovations, new development, and sustainable design throughout architectural types — tailored an unusually pedigreed ‘Eichler,’ the collective identify for the distinctive single-family residences commissioned by the Twentieth-century actual property developer Joseph Eichler, to the present householders’ imaginative and prescient, whereas paying homage to its groundbreaking origins.

An admirer of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, and broadly considered a social visionary, Joseph Eichler took the design ideas and values of recent structure to middle-class People. Between 1949 and 1966, his firm, Eichler Houses, constructed an estimated 11,000 fashionable, tract-style, single-family residences in deliberate communities, principally in Northern California; the Metropolis of Palo Alto, situated alongside the San Francisco Peninsula, boasts the biggest focus of such houses within the U.S.

In contrast to many of the ‘Eichlers’ present in Palo Alto, the one which Gustave Carlson and the venture workforce labored on is exclusive. Inbuilt 1971, and situated within the hills of Palo Alto on a flag lot that backs into what’s now a golf course, this ‘Eichler’ was custom-commissioned by John S. Lynd, an architect and private pal of Joseph Eichler.

The John S. Lynd ‘Eichler’ is at the moment owned by a visionary couple who share 4 daughters and an artwork assortment of greater than 90 works, primarily by rising feminine artists. Carlson approached their fee by adapting the construction for modern dwelling, integrating power effectivity and sustainability whereas letting its authentic bones shine via.

“An ‘Eichler’ captures the phrase optimism in constructed kind,” notes Carlson, who has labored on dozens of personal houses on the U.S. East Coast and in California. “These ethereal, light-filled, and human scale constructions convey the promise of the post-World Battle ll period, in addition to Joseph Eichler’s philosophy on home life, and the flexibility of recent design to boost our high quality of life.”