Joseph Eichler (1900–1974) was a residential real estate developer.
The largest contiguous Eichler Homes development is 'The Highlands' in San Mateo, built between 1956 and 1964.
Having lived for two decades in a modernist "Eichler" house, they chose architect John Lautner to realise Joseph Eichler's notion of "bringing the outside in" on a waterfront plot 30 feet wide and 70 feet deep, hemmed in by other houses.