In the early 1960s, California real estate developer Joseph Eichler took his passion for modernist architecture to San Francisco, working with the architect Claude Oakland to design 104 single-family homes in the city’s Diamond Heights neighborhood. It’s Eichler’s only development in a dense, urban environment.
Eichler’s micro-neighborhood, spread over a high ridge near the geographic center of the city and overlooking Glen Canyon Park, is mostly composed of compact lots…

