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Publications

PUBLISHED PROJECTS

  • Dwell Article May 8, 2018: https://www.dwell.com/article/never-before-seen-images-of-iconic-midcentury-modern-eichler-homes-79d6d575 , Ferne Ave. house
  • Dwell Home Tour Silicon Valley Nov. 3, 2012: https://www.losaltosonline.com/special-sections2/sections/your-home/43144-J44691
  • 2012 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour: Seeking inspiration
  • To the Web: Enter the world of Eichler Design.
  • 2016 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour: http://mads.media/2016-silicon-valley-modern-home-tour/
  • 2014 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour: No cookie-cutter homes here
  • Parkside House: “I Love This Place,” Palo Alto Daily News, March 2005.
  • Wildwood House: Metropolitan Home Magazine Home of the Year 1999
  • “I Love This Place,” Palo Alto Daily News, August 2005.
  • "Ranch Dressing," Metropolitan Home Magazine, Jan/Feb 1999, pp. 92-95.
  • "Winning Look," San Francisco Chronicle Home, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 1
  • "Updating the Eichler," Palo Alto Weekly - Home, Jan. 29, 1999, p.1.
  • "Modernist Mentality," Remodeling Magazine, Nov. 1999, pp. 60-61.
  • Scott Street House: PAST Preservation Project of the Year 1998
  • "Seeing Into the PAST," Palo Alto Weekly, May 8, 1998, p. 1-3.
  • Ben Lomond House: Metropolitan Home Magazine Home of the Year 1996
  • "Back to Utopia," Metropolitan Home Magazine, Jan/Feb 1996, pp. 78-81.
  • "Unique Local Home Wins Prize, Palo Alto Daily News, Dec. 16, 1995, p.1-2.
  • "Design for Living," Habitat, San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 17, 1996, p. 1-2.
  • "Preserving the Architecture of the '50's," San Francisco Chronicle, Peninsula Edition, Jan. 5, 1996, p.1.
  • "Eichler Fixer-Upper is Home of the Year," Eichler Network, Winter 1996.
  • "Thoroughly Modern Marciniks," Palo Alto Weekly , Feb. 2, 1996, p. 1-3.
  • "Rancho Deluxe," SF Examiner Magazine, Nov. 3, 1996.
  • "Tract Stars," Los Angeles Times Magazine, Jan. 14, 1996, p. 21-25.
  • "Radical Chic," Spazio Casa, Nov., 1998, pp.141-145.
  • Design for Living, Jerry Ditto, Chronicle Press, 1995, pp. 64-67, 104-107
  • Briarwood House: Design for Living, Jerry Ditto, Chronicle Press, 1995, pp. 64-67, 104-107.

MODERN PRESERVATION EFFORTS

  • Speaker, 2018 California Preservation Conference, Palo Alto, "Tract Homes with a Tailored Look."
  • Greenmeadow Community Center and Nursery School, 2008.
  • Mitchell Park: "California Peril" , Landscape Architecture, Aug. 1999, pp. 16-18.
  • "Saving Grace," SF Examiner Magazine, May 16, 1999, pp. 84-85.
  • Eichler Houses: “Eichler Houses, Innovation Continuing into the Present,” Axis Magazine, vol. 124, December 2006, pp.72-77.
  • “Eichler Homes Offer Retro Chic,” Structures Magazine.
  • "New Generation Delighted by Eichler Homes", San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 27, 2000, Jan. 24,2001.
  • "Back to the Present : Eichler Homes: Modernism at Its Best," San Diego Tribune, Dec. 10, 2000.
  • "Vanishing Eichlers" San Francisco Chronicle June 8, 2000.
  • "Old Modern Houses with Futurist Ideals" , New York Times, November 16, 2000, pp. F1-F6.
  • "Structures," San Jose and Silicon Valley Business Journal, Sept. 17, 1999, p. 18.
  • "In Living Color, " Home, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 28, 1996, p. 5.
  • "Place for Values" Peninsula Times Tribune, August 12,1992

LECTURES AND TOURS

  • Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour, March 31, 2012.
  • Architectuurreis Northern Californian Modernism, 27 May – 6 June 2010.
  • Palo Alto Stanford Heritage Holiday House Tour, Dec. 14, 2008: 774 Wildwood Lane, 762 Wildwood Lane, 318 Parkside Drive
  • “A Celebration of Eichlers: Greenmeadow at Fifty,” Palo Alto Historical Association, Nov. 7, 2004.
  • Greenmeadow Community FIftieth Anniversary Home Tour: 291 Parkside, 318 Parkside, 385 Parkside, 3962 Nelson Court, Oct., 2004
  • “A Stroll Through Greenmeadow,” PAST Preservation Week, May 16, 2002
  • Greenmeadow and Marcinik Residence Tour, American Society of Architectural Historians, Oct. 24, 2001.
  • Greenmeadow Tour, Palo Alto Architecture & Preservation Week, May 8, 2001: 4135 Briarwood Way, 4046 Ben Lomond Drive.
  • “Innovative Eichlers,” Palo Alto Historical Association Lecture, April 2, 2000.
  • Eichler Lecture, Interior Designers Association, July,1999.
  • SF Museum of Modern Art Tour, Aaron Betsky + Design Forum, June 1999.
  • Palo Alto Centennial Home Tour, 4135 Briarwood , April 1994.

PERFORMANCE / MEDIA HGTV

  • “Indoor Outdoor Bathroom,” Winter 2006.
  • HGTV Special, "Old Homes Restored," April, 2000.
  • Bay Area Backroads TV show, "Palo Alto - Eichler Homes," Spring 1999.
  • "Modern Antiquities," PAST Newsletter, January 1999
  • "Save This Building," Palo Alto Medical Foundation letter, PA Weekly,11/3/95
  • Absolutely Real Estate TV show - Eichler Homes, January, 1995
  • Greenmeadow-40 year Legacy of Modern Residential Design Video-5 part series, 1994, production assistance and guest appearance

COMPETITION AWARDS AND EXHIBITED WORK

  • "Ground Zero," Palo Alto Weekly , Aug. 30, 1996, p. 28
  • Second Prize for "Wise Old Man in the Cave," Steelcase System 9000 Competition, 1992


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