#counterculture

May 5, 1996 fire that burned thousands of acres of Carson National Forest and destroyed most Lama Foundation structures, though the Baer-designed Dome complex survived.

Three-day fall 1969 gathering in the woods near Santa Barbara, organized by ARC member Dave Evans, at which Zomeworks participated alongside SRI and other countercultural and resea…

Counterculture commune near Trinidad, Colorado where Baer built what he called the first convective air loop rock storage system that worked (1967-68), documented in the Dome Cookb…

Intentional interfaith spiritual community near San Cristobal, New Mexico, founded 1967, whose 'cookbook fund' published Baer's Dome Cookbook and whose first structure was a Baer-d…

Home of Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center; connected to Zomeworks in its founding year through the 1969 Peradam gathering and visits between ARC researchers and the commune …

University whose environmental design and ATLAS programs are suggested as Baer House research partners via the Drop City counterculture-architecture connection.

Co-founder of the Lama Foundation in 1967, later known as Asha Greer.

Geometric abstractionist painter (b. 1933) who co-founded Park Place Gallery in New York and the Libre commune in Colorado, building a 40-foot geodesic dome studio. Often misidenti…

Co-founder of the Lama Foundation in 1967 with Barbara and Steve Durkee.

Spiritual teacher (Richard Alpert) who stayed at the Lama Foundation in 1970, where the community produced the manuscript that became Be Here Now.

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.

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…

Circa-1968 publication by the Lama Foundation cookbook fund, confirmed published and listed on the Dome Cookbook cover but not in the archive.

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.