Books

Books by Steve Baer and Zomeworks on passive solar design and Zonohedra geometry.

Sunspots

Steve Baer’s solar energy book (1975) — practical design for solar heating and cooling.

• Sunspots — Full book
• More Sun Spots (2012) — Baer’s follow-up volume; cover only ingested so far, see Sunspots § Later work

Zome Primer

Elements of Zonohedra Geometry — the mathematics and structures behind Zome building systems.

• Zome Primer — Full primer

Print Books

Physical books in the Solar Fool collection.

• Absorption Chillers and Heat Pumps, Second Edition — Keith E. Herold
• Activated Carbon Adsorption
• Adsorption Design Guide — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Adsorption Technology for Air and Water Pollution Control — Kenneth E. Noll
• Appropriate Building Materials — Roland Stulz
• Architectural Acoustics Illustrated — Michael Ermann
• Architecture: Form, Space, and Order — Francis D. K. Ching
• Barefoot Architect — Johan van Lengen
• Beginner’s Guide to Reading Schematics, Second Edition — Robert J. Traister
• Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2012 International Building Code — Francis D. K. Ching
• Building Construction Illustrated — Francis D. K. Ching
• Building Structures Illustrated: Patterns, Systems, and Design — Francis D. K. Ching
• Building with Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs): Strength and Energy Efficiency Through Structural (For Pros By Pros) — Inc. Studio B Productions
• Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
• Classic Hydronics — Dan Holohan
• Container Atlas: A Practical Guide to Container Architecture
• Contemporary Living Space — Sandu Publishing
• Design for a Limited Planet — Norma Skurka
• Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy (Trends in Science, V. 5) — Farrington Daniels
• Fabric Formwork Book: Methods for Building New Architectural and Structural Forms in Concrete — Mark West
• Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods — Edward Allen
• Geo Power: Stay Warm, Keep Cool and Save Money with Geothermal Heating & Cooling — Donal Blaise Lloyd
• Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture & Technology — Ken Perlin
• Green Building Illustrated — Francis D. K. Ching
• Heating with Renewable Energy — John Siegenthaler
• Homegrown Sundwellings — Peter Van Dresser
• Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower — Dan Chiras
• How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home — Charlie Wing
• Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City — Farallones Institute
• Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life — Eric D. Schneider
• Introduction to Architectural Science: The Basis of Sustainable Design — Steven V. Szokolay
• Landscape for Humans: A case study of the potentials for ecologically guided development in an uplands region — Peter Van Dresser
• Latex Concrete Habitat — Albert Knott
• Little Adsorption Book — Diran Basmadjian
• Lost Art of Steam Heating Revisited — Dan Holohan
• Make Your Own Handcrafted Doors & Windows — John Birchard
• Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings — Walter T. Grondzik
• Modern Hydronic Heating: For Residential and Light Commercial Buildings — John Siegenthaler
• Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning — Alfred F. Bracciano
• Natural Solar Architecture: The Passive Solar Primer — David Wright
• Noise Control Manual for Residential Buildings — David A. Harris
• Owner-Built Home — Ken Kern
• Passive Solar Design and Construction Handbook — Michael J. Crosbie
• Passive Solar Design Handbook — Bruce Anderson
• Passive solar design handbook, volume 3 — Robert W. Jones
• Passive Solar Energy Book (Expanded Professional Edition) — Edward Mazria
• Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat and Cool Your Home — James Kachadorian
• Performance enhancement of Thermal Radiant Cooling System — Rahul Goyal
• Physical Adsorption — L.W. Bruch
• Power Trip — Michael E. Webber
• Practical Electrical Wiring: Residential, Farm, Commercial, and Industrial — F. P. Hartwell
• Preservation of Historic Architecture: The U.S. Government’s Official Guidelines for Preserving Historic Homes — Department of Interior
• Primary-Secondary Pumping Made Easy! — Dan Holohan
• Pumping Away and other really cool piping options for hydronic systems — Dan Holohan
• Radiant Floor Heating, Second Edition — R. Woodson
• Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology — Bill Whitman
• Residential Construction Academy HVAC — Eugene Silberstein
• Ruin and Redemption in Architecture — Daniel Barasch
• Shelter II
• Small Eco Houses: Living Green in Style — Cristina Paredes Benitez
• Soft Energy Paths: Towards a Durable Peace — Amory B. Lovins
• Solar 2: Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on New Sources of Energy — Steve Baer
• Solar Cooling — Paul Kohlenbach
• Solar Heating and Cooling Systems: Fundamentals, Experiments and Applications — Ioan Sarbu
• Solar Home Book: Heating, cooling, and designing with the sun — Bruce Anderson
• Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling — Daniel D. Chiras
• Sound Reinforcement Handbook — Gary Davis
• Sun, Wind, and Light: Architectural Design Strategies — Mark DeKay
• Sunspots: An Exploration of Solar Energy Through Fact and Fiction — Steve Baer
• Sunspots: Collected facts and solar fiction — Steve Baer
• Super Solar Houses — William A. Shurcliff
• Tailored Fabric Formwork — Keith Milne
• Visual Dictionary of Architecture — Francis D. K. Ching
• Wiring a House: 5th Edition (For Pros By Pros) — Rex Cauldwell
• Wiring Simplified: Based on the 2014 National Electrical Code® — H. P. Richter

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See Also

• Archives — primary source documents and photographs (see raw/articles/, raw/papers/, and raw/images/)
• Reading List — Suggested reading on passive solar and related topics
• Sunspots
• Zome