[Originally appeared in popLife, Spring 2005]
“We’ve always been attracted to modern architecture and style without really knowing it,” says Alan Yeung, Project Manager at CRISP Brand Agency. With his wife Rosanna Zaragoza-Yeung, he owns a 1963 Joseph Eichler home in Orange, CA, in a tract called Fair Meadows, so named by Eichler when it was built. This house is the couple’s first home, purchased in July of 2003—a remarkable start, to say the least.
Joseph Eichler—who referred to himself as a builder or developer, as opposed to an architect—built, along with his Eichler Homes, Inc., nearly 11,000 single-family homes in California, beginning in the late 1940s and continuing until his death in 1974. Three particular communities ofEichler homes exist in Southern California: Thousand Oaks, Granada Hills and Orange. In addition, Eichler homes were built throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose and Sacramento, as well as in the state of New York.
