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Pioneering American architect (1887-1989) whose 60+ year career included experimental material houses and the 1948 Dover Sun House, the first solar-heated residence. FAIA 1961.
Nuclear physicist turned passive solar pioneer (1935-2023) who directed the LANL Solar Energy Group, led authorship of the DOE Passive Solar Design Handbook, and brought scientific…
Hungarian-American biophysicist and solar energy pioneer (1900-1995) who developed the Dover Sun House's Glauber's salt heat storage system, a WWII portable solar desalinator, and …
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.
Bridgers & Paxton's 1956 office headquarters at 213 Truman St. SE, Albuquerque, widely called the world's first solar-heated commercial office building, now on the National Registe…
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…
Harry Thomason's solar heating system, presented at the 1961 UN Conference on New Sources of Energy.