#drop-city

Spring 1969 gathering organized by Barry Hickman with Steve and Holly Baer (location given as Alamogordo by Baer, disputed as Coyote/Gardner, Colorado by other sources) that direct…

Buckminster Fuller's $500 award (1966, shared with Clark Richert) to Drop City for its 'economically poetic architecture'.

French architecture travel journal/blog that documented a 2017 visit to Bruce W. Davis and described the DrumWall's Drop City roots.

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…

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…

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

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 Drop City in 1965 with Clark Richert, JoAnn Bernofsky, and Richard Kallweit.

Director of the circa-2002 Drop City documentary that features Steve Baer on camera.

Co-founder of Drop City in 1965 with Clark Richert, Gene Bernofsky, and Richard Kallweit.

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

Corrales house (1972) with a convective air-loop rock-storage system, part of the air-based storage lineage Baer began at Drop City.

Books, articles and other media about passive cooling and heating and related subjects.

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…

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…

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…