Modern Architectures of North America

Plan 1224

The plan is an example of the many homes that Eichler designed to be built in large numbers as tract houses, or houses part of a larger community where the architecture was similar in each building. These Eichler homes were a new idea of the tract house, more open to the landscape and carefully designed than the tract houses made of 'ticky-tacky' that were so common in that time period. Eichler redefined this type of house, creating a style that has been copied since.
These tract houses were not only designed to be part of larger communities, but these communities were designed to both be incorporated with parks in the area and be racially diverse groups of people. Eichler designated the houses to be available to all, designing for the middle class regardless of race, more radical for the time period. One of Eichler's biggest created community full of Eichler homes was The Highlands, consisting of over 700 homes and a broad variety of Eichler designs that are somewhat still standing today.

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