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Ed Heinz

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Co-founder of Zomeworks Corporation with Steve Baer and Barry Hickman, c.1969-70. Dome Cookbook (1968) records him working on new zome designs at Drop City before the founding. No independent public record exists beyond Baer's own writing.

Co-founder of Zomeworks Corporation with Steve Baer and Barry Hickman, c.1969-70 (sources vary between “1969” and “around 1970”). Baer’s Dome Cookbook (1968) records “Ed Heinz is working on new designs at Drop City” — placing him as an active collaborator with Baer at Drop City before Zomeworks existed. Wikipedia’s account of Baer’s career states he and Heinz “experimented with constructing buildings of unusual geometries that they came to call ‘zomes’… often using heavy sheet metal,” in the same pre-Zomeworks period that also involved Manera Nueva.

A Mother Earth News interview quotes Baer on the incorporation itself: “Barry Hickman and Ed Heinz and I issued stock like a corporation and got a lawyer and all of that… Organizing what we had been doing for fun and excitement into a business put a hell of a lot of strain on all of us at the beginning.”

No independent record

A 2026-07-19 research pass (genealogy sites, patent databases, obituary indexes, current Zomeworks/Zometool corporate materials, Spatial Agency’s Drop City page) found no independent biography, obituary, or later-career record for this Ed Heinz. He exists in the historical record only as a name attached to Zomeworks’ founding, through Baer’s own retellings.

Southwest Coming Together

Grokipedia’s “Zome (architecture)” page (not directly accessible — returns 403) describes “Zomeworks members Edward Heinz, Day Chahroudi, John Curl, Buck Dant, and Richard Kallweit” creating “a model and ‘cyclotone’ audio-visual projection called Southwest Coming Together.” A 2026-08-10 web search confirmed this claim appears consistently across multiple search-result snippets from both Grokipedia and the academic paper Drop City Revisited. The Wikipedia “Zome (architecture)” article does not contain this detail. The project connects Heinz to the broader Zomeworks circle beyond the founding trio and places him alongside other known Drop City/counterculture figures (Chahroudi, Kallweit). The nature of the “cyclotone” is not described in any accessible source.

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