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Ken Butti and John Perlin's 1980 history of 2,500 years of solar architecture that entirely omits Baer, Hay, Thomason, and the counterculture passive-solar movement.
Peter Van Dresser's 1976 book (Lightning Tree) on sustainable living and appropriate technology in New Mexico, described as an intellectual precursor to bioregionalism.
Keith E. Herold, Reinhard Radermacher, Sanford A. Klein. CRC Press LLC, 2016-04-04.
U S Army Corps of Engineers. University Press of the Pacific, 2005-01-27.
Kenneth E. Noll. CRC Press, 1991-10-18.
Roland Stulz, Kiran Mukerji. Practical Action, 1993-09-01.
Robert J. Traister, Anna L. Lisk. TAB Books, 1991-03-01.
Francis D. K. Ching, Steven R. Winkel. Wiley, 2012-07-10.
Francis D. K. Ching, Barry S. Onouye, Douglas Zuberbuhler. Wiley, 2009-01-14.
Inc. Studio B Productions, Michael Morely. Taunton Press, 2000-10-12.
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Gail Vittori. 2010. 329pp.
Dan Holohan. Dan Holohan Associates, Incorporated, 2011-12-01.
Container Atlas: A Practical Guide to Container Architecture
Skurka and Naar's book featuring Baer's early work alongside other ecological designers.
Farrington Daniels' 1964 Yale University Press survey of solar energy science, documenting nocturnal radiation cooling figures and the Bliss and Yanagimachi precedents.
John Birchard, Adrienne Nunez (Cover Design by). Echo Point Books & Media, LLC., 2014-07-25.
Edward Allen, Joseph Iano. Wiley, 2013-10-14.
Donal Blaise Lloyd. PixyJack Press, Inc., 2015. 208pp.
Francis D. K. Ching, Ian M. Shapiro. Wiley, 2014-02-24.
Van Dresser's 1977 practical guide to owner-built passive solar homes in the New Mexico tradition.
Charlie Wing. RSMeans, 2012-02-28.
Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan. University Of Chicago Press, 2005-06-01.
Steven V. Szokolay. Routledge, 2014. 392pp.
John Birchard. Echo Point Books & Media, 2014-07-25.
Walter T. Grondzik, Alison G. Kwok. Wiley, 2014-10-06.
Margot Gayle, Margot Gayle David W. Look John G. Waite, David W. Look, John G. Waite. DIANE Publishing, 1998. 168pp.
John Siegenthaler. Cengage Learning, 2011. 752pp.
Alfred F. Bracciano, Daniel C. Bracciano, Gloria M. Bracciano. Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher, 2019. 414pp.
David Wright's 1984 passive solar primer offering design strategies complementary to Baer's, with two copies in the Joule Heist collection.
David A. Harris, Walls and Ceilings Magazine Editors. McGrawHill Education, 1997-07-22.
The DOE/Los Alamos three-volume technical reference (Balcomb et al., 1980-84) that became the passive solar industry standard.
Bruce Anderson, Malcolm Wells. Brick House Publishing Co ,U.S., 1981-01-01.
Rahul Goyal, Arun Kumar Kulhari, Suveg Singh. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2019. 100pp.
L.W. Bruch, Milton W. Cole, Eugene Zaremba. Courier Dover Publications, 2007-03-29.
F. P. Hartwell, Herbert P. Richter. Park Publishing, Inc., 2014-03-01.
Dan Holohan. Dan Holohan Associates, Incorporated, 2016. 120pp.
Dan Holohan. Dan Holohan Assocs, 1994-04-04.
R. Woodson. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009-12-10.
Bill Whitman, Bill Johnson, John Tomczyk, Eugene Silberstein. Cengage Learning, 2012-02-24.
Eugene Silberstein. Delmar Cengage Learning, 2011-05-12.
Daniel Barasch, Dylan Thuras (Contribution by). Phaidon Press, Incorporated, 2019-03-29.
Kahn and Easton's 1973 'Domebook 3' expanding beyond domes to global vernacular building methods.
Cristina Paredes Benitez, Alex Sanchez Vidiella. Universe, 2010-11-02.
Amory Lovins' book complementing Baer's philosophy of appropriate, sustainable technology, held in the Joule Heist collection.
Steve Baer. Cloudburst Press, 1978-04-01.
Ioan Sarbu, Calin Sebarchievici. Academic Press, 2016. 432pp.
Gary Davis, Ralph Jones. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1990.
Mark DeKay, G. Z. Brown. Wiley, 2014-02-03.
Steve Baer. Cloudburst Press, 1979-04-01.
Baer's 1975 book (Zomeworks Corporation) mixing solar science with solar fiction across eleven chapters; the archive's earliest dense primary source, reissued by Cloudburst Press i…
William Shurcliff's 1983 survey of high-performance passive solar house design, published the same era the canonical histories omitted the counterculture movement.
Johan van Lengen. Shelter Publications, Inc., 2007-10-28.
Mark West. Routledge, 2016. 318pp.
Dan Chiras. New Society Publishers, 2006-02-01.
Book applying self-reliant ecological design principles to urban environments, in the Solar Fool print collection.
Dan Holohan. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-05-09.
Ken Kern's book sharing Baer's DIY ethos and self-sufficiency approach.
Michael J. Crosbie, Steven Winter Associates. John Wiley & Sons, 1998-01-01.
Edward Mazria's 1979 practical passive solar reference (687-page expanded professional edition in the Joule Heist collection).
James Kachadorian. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1997-05-01.
Department of Interior. Lyons Press, 2004-01-01.
Anderson and Riordan's 1976 Cheshire Books volume contextualizing Baer within the broader passive solar movement.
Daniel Chiras's book providing updated passive solar techniques building on pioneers like Baer.
Rex Cauldwell. Taunton Press, 2014-10-28.
H. P. Richter, W. C. Schwan, F. P. Hartwell. Park Publishing, Inc., 2014-07-15.
David Bainbridge's 1981 practitioner's guide (reissued 2005) to water-wall thermal mass, which independently corroborates the Baer House DrumWall installation.
2018 Routledge volume (eds. McDonald & Dayer) for which Baer wrote the chapter 'Harold Hay's influence and the Zomeworks Corporation', formally acknowledging Hay as an upstream inf…
Clément Gaillard's French anthology (T&P Work Unit) containing first French translations of two otherwise uncatalogued Baer essays, 'Basic Technologies' and 'The Paradox of the Clo…
1977 SolarVision documentary film by Martin McPhillips on the planning and construction of the Karen Terry House.
Baer's 2009 presentation to the AIA Albuquerque chapter surveying the New Mexico passive solar canon from 1968 to 2009, including his epidemic metaphor for suppressed waves of sola…
Ram Dass's book, edited, illustrated, and first self-printed by the Lama Foundation community from the 'From Bindu to Ojas' manuscript, later selling over 2 million copies.
Movable-insulation invention (US Patent 3,903,665, Harrison, filed 1973) that blows polystyrene beads between window panes, covered by Mother Earth News in 1974.
Floating plastic check valve used in Zomeworks' di-thermal wall prototypes, named by Joe Minella because the balls could be seen boogieing through clear pipe.
Baer's June 2000 provocation essay arguing against the efficiency argument and the environmental advocacy apparatus of foundations like Rockefeller, MacArthur, and Pew.
Baer's January 2004 essay observing that Earth is about 3.5% closer to the sun in early January, making winter sunlight roughly 7% stronger than aphelion values.
Zomeworks' passive climate-control system connecting ceiling water reservoirs to roof-mounted radiator/absorbers by thermosiphon, cooling buildings without electricity, refrigerant…
Baer's January 1984 SUNPAPER essay containing Baer House temperature data from August 1983, U-zero ventilation theory, and a LASL critique.
Solar Fools' brand name for Baer's Cool Cell / radiative sky cooling system, used commercially since the 1990s to cool batteries and electronics in desert environments.
Tuazon's 2013 glass-pane work whose cavity fills with polystyrene beads at night for insulation — functionally a Beadwall, though the article does not name Harrison's system.
Baer's September 2004 letter as Zomeworks president reporting the US 6,357,512 patent, a $93,000 capital raise at $3.00/share, and the roll-form franchise vision.
Steve Baer's regenerator-based gravity heat engine using buoyant divers in hot and cold liquid baths, prototyped and presented in his 1974 CoEvolution Quarterly article.
Steve Baer's 1968 staple-bound account of zonohedra mathematics and car-top dome building, published by the Lama Foundation, which influenced the first Whole Earth Catalog and Lloy…
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…
Zomeworks' thermosiphon-based passive heating/cooling product line — the subject of Baer's 2004 shareholder pitch, Davis's studio installation, the Los Ranchos container proposal, …
Peter Rabbit's first-person memoir of the Drop City commune (Olympia Press, 1971), called the most substantial book-length account of the commune though disputed by Clark Richert a…
Documentary (c. 2002) on the Drop City commune containing Baer's on-camera claim to the first working convective air-loop rock storage system and Kahn's account of the Dome Cookboo…
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…
Mike Reynolds' enterprise sustained by paid tours, a build-your-own academy, nightly rentals, and a legislative carve-out, with roughly 3,000 homes worldwide using its techniques.
Circa-1968 publication by the Lama Foundation cookbook fund, confirmed published and listed on the Dome Cookbook cover but not in the archive.
2006 book co-authored by Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper (BookSurge Publishing).
Fred Turner's 2006 academic study (U Chicago Press) documenting Brand's brokering between the commune movement and computer research, with Zomeworks and Baer inside the network.
2007 documentary chronicling Mike Reynolds's license fight and his drafting of New Mexico's Sustainable Development Testing Site Act.
Baer's Summer 1974 Coevolution Quarterly article (pp. 80-87) on gravity engines and the low-temperature diving engine.
Ed Allen's 1995 Oxford book, quoted in Baer's di-thermal roof materials on why ceiling radiant systems feel better than floor systems.
The curator's 80-item physical book collection (Libib export, 2026), holding many of the reading list's key solar titles including both Sunspots printings.
Hannah R. Clark's August 1979 DOE-funded bibliography (LBL-9391) that included Sunspots and Zome Primer, the earliest federal institutional endorsement of Baer's work.
1970s Mother Earth News article documenting Baer's practical implementations at his Zomeworks compound, a priority pending ingest.
Baer's 2012 follow-up volume to Sunspots, published by Zomeworks; only the cover has been ingested into the archive so far.
Federal historic registry under which the Baer House likely qualifies via Criterion A (broad historical patterns) and Criterion C (distinctive construction methods).
Baer's 2002 essay arguing that surfaces, not air, do the real work of nighttime cooling by radiating heat directly to space — the foundational text for the archive's thermal vision…
Baer's 1975 window insulation approach using rigid foam pressed against glass, the simplest of the three Zomeworks window-insulation systems.
Book co-authored by Ken Haggard and David Bainbridge on heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting using natural flows.
Peter Van Dresser's practical guide drawing on his pioneering 1950s New Mexico passive solar houses.
2006 state-funded report by Mark Chalom Architect with Bristol Stickney and Kate Snider quantifying NSRC potential across New Mexico's 11 climate zones from two summers of radiator…
Boyle and Harper's edited volume placing Baer's work in the context of the appropriate technology movement.
Low-cost single-board computer at the heart of the archive's reusable off-grid sensor and logging rig for small passive-thermal experiments.
Clark Richert's permanent 2007 Penrose-tiling installation on the exterior of MCA Denver's building.
Zomeworks' insulated skylight louver (US Patent 3,884,414) that opens and closes by itself via refrigerant-canister weight shifts, with no electricity, thermostat, or motor.
Zomeworks' unglazed collector panel product, used by Bruce Davis in Double Play installations and cited in Baer's 2003 unglazed collectors article for delivering warm showers throu…
Harold Hay's roof-pond passive heating and cooling system — water bags on flat roofs under movable insulation — demonstrated in Phoenix (1967) and Atascadero (1973) and cited as in…
Circa-1968 cookbook-fund poster in the curator's possession pending scan; if 'Sol' means solar it would be Baer's earliest solar publication, predating Sunspots by about seven year…
Harry Thomason's solar heating system, presented at the 1961 UN Conference on New Sources of Energy.
Stewart Brand's December 7, 1972 Rolling Stone article on countercultural computing that quotes Baer as 'dome and solar designer Steve Baer from dusty Albuquerque'.
Kayatekin's 2025 ICON paper — the first academic work to establish the Baer House and Zomeworks in international scholarship, calling the thermosiphon Baer's broadly overlooked cen…
Baer's patented closed-loop convective device (US 3,618,569) that keeps an ice hole open for livestock — the conceptual seed of the double-play thermosiphon lineage.
Zomeworks' mirrored reflector and shade panel system that directs winter sun into south-facing collectors and shades them in summer, developed through four patents.
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.
NMSEA's newsletter, a recurring venue for Baer's late-career writing including the unglazed-collectors article (March/April 2003) and the thermosiphon shower field test.
2005 New Mexico legislation drafted by Mike Reynolds permitting experimental off-grid construction.
Baer essay coining 'tax shine' as a satirical counterpart to sunshine, arguing that solar tax credits pervert the sun's use.
John Prenis's exploration of alternative structures influenced by Baer's geometric thinking.
Bainbridge and the Steens' work on straw bale building materials, complementing passive solar approaches with sustainable low-cost construction.
One of Baer's absurdist Sunspots fiction pieces, revisited by Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic during Occupy Wall Street.
Baer's March 2003 SunPaper article arguing that unglazed collectors beat glazed ones near ambient temperature and introducing the parking-lot IR thermometer lesson.
A. & A. Iske's 1882 gravity heat-engine patent, the earliest version of the recurring bubble-wheel design Baer traced at the US Patent Office in 1973.
Baer's zonohedra structural system (zome form) patent, filed 1968 and issued 1973.
Dave Harrison's 1975 Beadwall patent ('Heat energy transmission control panel'), assigned personally rather than to Zomeworks.
Rambach/Ormat Turbines 1981 patent documenting a pure passive dual-thermosiphon loop cooling a ~2 cubic meter telecom shelter — the closest real precedent for miniature thermosipho…
1990 Battery Temperature Regulation System patent, the first in the Cool Cell lineage, which commercially proved night-sky radiative cooling in telephone-company battery cabinets.
1991 Temperature Regulating System patent adding a stratifying insulation layer to a ceiling-mounted water container — the Cool Cell ceiling reservoir concept.
1994 Passive Cooling System patent that moved the radiator to the roof with symmetric parallel conduits for balanced thermosiphon flow.
1995/1996 corrugated-roof passive temperature regulating patent mating blow-molded water containers to roll-formed metal roofing, later refined into the 2001 Cool Cell patent.
Dave Harrison's 1997 Integral Roof Cooling Container patent — water containers molded directly onto metal roof sections, cooled by night-sky radiation — bridging the battery cabine…
The 2002 Passive Heating and Cooling System patent held by Zomeworks — the Cool Cell architectural system patent underpinning the Double Play.
Circa-1985 multi-volume USAF engineering guide (Architectural Energy Corp.) whose air-only definition of passive cooling documents the institutional mainstream that excluded water-…
Oscar Tuazon's 2019 MSU Broad Museum exhibition, with companion schools in California and Minnesota, that placed Baer at the origin of Tuazon's practice.
Stewart Brand's countercultural reference catalog (first published fall 1968) whose format was directly influenced by Baer's Dome Cookbook and which listed that book in its first e…
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 …
Tuazon's 2016 full-scale plywood prototype of interconnected rooms inspired by Baer's polygonal 'Zome Home', first shown at Art Basel 2016.
Hart and Picciotto's work expanding the mathematical principles of Baer's structural designs, intersecting with Zometool.
1970 Zomeworks publication explaining zome structures, opening with the explicit comparison of zomes to Fuller's geodesic domes.
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.
A 2026 Zomeworks prototype turning a standard steel shipping container into a modular, relocatable passive-thermal platform, proposed for public demonstration at Los Ranchos.