#corrales

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Amherst College 2026-08-01

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.

Carrizo Solar Corp 2026-08-01

Solar company partly co-owned by a Michael Elliston when it bought ARCO's Carrizo Plains PV plant in 1990.

Corrales Comment 2026-08-01

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.

MCA Denver 2026-08-01

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.

Village of Corrales 2026-08-01

Local government with a historic preservation ordinance that could landmark the Baer House without requiring acquisition.

Dick Henry 2026-08-01

One of the developers, with David Boyd and Baer, who brought the Skylid to its documented state.

Richard Kallweit 2026-08-01

Co-founder of Drop City in 1965 alongside Clark Richert and the Bernofskys.

Albuquerque 2026-08-01

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.

The Baer House 2026-08-01

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…

Corrales 2026-08-01

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.

Los Ranchos 2026-08-01

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…

Manera Nueva 2026-08-01

Site in Placitas, New Mexico where Baer and collaborators practiced zonahedra construction in 1966-1968, before Zomeworks existed.

Paul Davis House 2026-08-01

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.

Domebook 2 2026-08-01

Lloyd Kahn's 1971 dome book (160,000 copies) that he pulled from print after concluding domes did not work as homes.

Domebook One 2026-08-01

Lloyd Kahn's 1970 dome-building book, produced with Bob Easton using tools loaned by Stewart Brand.

Domebook series 2026-08-01

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…

Drop City Panorama 2026-08-01

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.

DrumWall 2026-08-01

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…

Sunmen 2026-08-01

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…

Sunny Days Ahead! 2026-08-01

Baer's July 2000 four-page dark satire imagining the rational project of eliminating clouds and weather to achieve permanent, commodified sunshine.

Zome 2026-08-01

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 …

Zometool 2026-08-01

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

Baer Zome House — Photo Set
Baer Zome House — Photo Set

Six exterior and interior photographs of the Steve Baer Zome House in Corrales, NM — drum wall, skylid, shade reflectors, roof, north and south facades.

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Tribal Messenger Cover (1973)
Tribal Messenger Cover (1973)

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.

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