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College Baer attended intermittently (leaving in 1957 and again after conflict); his memorial was co-written by his son Jose for a 50th-reunion context.
Solar company partly co-owned by a Michael Elliston when it bought ARCO's Carrizo Plains PV plant in 1990.
Local Corrales newspaper that published Baer's July 2000 irrigation column and his June 2024 obituary.
Baer's separate engineering vehicle at Zomeworks' founding, assignee of the 1969 osmotic heat pipe patent US 3,561,525.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, which exhibited Drop City material in 'West of Center' (2011), hosts Richert's permanent Riemannian Tangencies installation, and mounted his 2019…
501(c)(3) solar-education nonprofit and New Mexico ASES chapter co-founded by Steve Baer, Peter Van Dresser, and Ken Haggard at Ghost Ranch in 1972; publishes the SunPaper newslett…
Scholarly society whose peer-reviewed SAH Archipedia entry documents the Baer House and places it in New Mexico's passive-solar architectural lineage.
Local government with a historic preservation ordinance that could landmark the Baer House without requiring acquisition.
One of the developers, with David Boyd and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.
Co-founder of Drop City in 1965 alongside Clark Richert and the Bernofskys.
New Mexico city home to Bruce Davis's practice, the AIA chapter Baer addressed in 2009, and the 1956 Bridgers & Paxton solar-heated office building.
Steve Baer's cluster of connected zomes in Corrales, New Mexico, built beginning in 1971 as the first full-scale testbed for DrumWall, Skylid, and Sunbender, still passively heatin…
New Mexico town where Steve Baer built his zome house in 1971-72 and where the Baer family and Benjamin Rodefer grew up; a center of 1970s passive solar interest.
New Mexico village whose Agri-Nature Center — a working farm and education center with repeat visitation — is the proposed demonstration site for the Double Play shipping-container…
Site in Placitas, New Mexico where Baer and collaborators practiced zonahedra construction in 1966-1968, before Zomeworks existed.
Corrales house (1972) with a convective air-loop rock-storage system, part of the air-based storage lineage Baer began at Drop City.
Baer's June 2000 provocation essay arguing against the efficiency argument and the environmental advocacy apparatus of foundations like Rockefeller, MacArthur, and Pew.
Lloyd Kahn's 1971 dome book (160,000 copies) that he pulled from print after concluding domes did not work as homes.
Lloyd Kahn's 1970 dome-building book, produced with Bob Easton using tools loaned by Stewart Brand.
Lloyd Kahn's Domebook One (1970) and Domebook 2 (1971), which extended the Dome Cookbook's format influence into mainstream publishing before Kahn concluded domes did not work as h…
Clark Richert's 1968 archival digital print (72 x 28.5 in.) documenting Drop City, exhibited at MCA Denver's 'West of Center' show in 2011.
Steve Baer's original passive solar heat storage invention: a south-facing wall of water-filled drums behind glazing that absorbs solar heat by day and radiates it into the room ov…
Steve Baer's May 2004 manifesto imagining the practice of 'sun work' — outdoor, tool- and measurement-based solar work opposed to subsidies, certifications, and contrived celebrati…
Baer's July 2000 four-page dark satire imagining the rational project of eliminating clouds and weather to achieve permanent, commodified sunshine.
Baer's zonohedra-derived structural system (US Patent 3,722,153), fusing 'zone' and 'dome' — simple in structure, complicated in shape, and the form behind Zomeworks' name and the …
Commercial 31-zone ball-and-strut construction system developed by Paul Hildebrandt from Steve Baer's geometry; Jose Baer considers it possibly his father's most significant work.
Inventory
Six exterior and interior photographs of the Steve Baer Zome House in Corrales, NM — drum wall, skylid, shade reflectors, roof, north and south facades.
Cover of the 'Solar Energy' insert in The Tribal Messenger, March 12, 1973 — a hand-drawn sun face above a photograph of the Baer house roofline and Sandia Mountains.