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Peter Van Dresser

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New Mexico pioneer who built some of the first passive solar houses in the state in the 1950s, co-founded NMSEA with Baer and Haggard in 1972, and wrote A Landscape for Humans, Homegrown Sundwellings, and Passive Solar House Basics.

New Mexico pioneer who built some of the first passive solar houses in the state in the 1950s, co-founded NMSEA with Baer and Haggard in 1972, and wrote A Landscape for Humans, Homegrown Sundwellings, and Passive Solar House Basics.

Full article: Peter Van Dresser

See also

  • Maria Telkes — fellow first-generation solar pioneer whose 1940s–50s heat-storage work parallels Van Dresser’s early passive houses