List of pioneering solar buildings

The following buildings are of significance in pioneering the use of solar powered building design:

MIT Solar House #1, Massachusetts, United States (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1939)^[1]^[2]^[3]
Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, United States (George Fred Keck, 1940)^[1]^[4]
"Solar Hemicycle", near Madison, Wisconsin, United States (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1944)^[1]^[5]
Löf House, Boulder, Colorado, United States (George Löf, 1945)^[1]^[2]^[6]
Rosenberg House, Tucson, Arizona, United States (Arthur T. Brown, 1946)^[1]^[7]
MIT Solar House #2, United States, (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1947)^[1]^[8]
Peabody House ("Dover Sun House", MIT Solar House #6), Dover, Massachusetts, United States (Eleanor Raymond & Mária Telkes, 1948)^[1]^[2]^[8]
Henry P. Glass House, Northfield, Illinois, United States (Henry P. Glass, 1948)^[9]^[10]
Rose Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona, United States (Arthur T. Brown, 1948)^[1]^[7]
MIT Solar House #3, United States, (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1949)^[1]^[2]^[8]
New Mexico State College House, New Mexico, United States (Lawrence Gardenhire, 1953)^[8]^{[citation needed]}
Lefever Solar House, Pennsylvania, United States (HR Lefever, 1954)^[8]^{[citation needed]}
Bliss House, Amado, Arizona, United States (Raymond W. Bliss & M. K. Donavan, 1954)^[1]^[8]
Solar Building, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States (Frank Bridgers & Don Paxton, 1956)^[1]^[11]
University of Toronto House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (EA Allcut, 1956)^[8]^{[citation needed]}
Solar House, Tokyo, Japan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1956)^[1]^[8]
Solar House, Bristol, United Kingdom (L Gardner, 1956)^[8]^{[citation needed]}
Curtis House, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom (Edward JW Curtis, 1956)^[12]
Löf House, Denver, Colorado, United States (James M. Hunter & George Löf, 1957)^[1]^[13]
AFASE "Living With the Sun" House, Phoenix, Arizona, United States (Peter Lee, Robert L. Bliss & John Yellott, 1958)^[1]
MIT Solar House #4, United States (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1958)^[1]^[2]^[8]
Solar House, Casablanca, Morocco (CM Shaw & Associates, 1958)^[1]^[8]^{[citation needed]}
Solar House, Nagoya, Japan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1958)^[1]^[8]
Curtiss-Wright "Sun Court," Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Maria Telkes & Aladar Olgyay, 1958)^[1]
"Sun-Tempered House" Van Dresser Residence (Peter van Dresser, 1958)
Thomason Solar House "Solaris" #1, Washington D.C., United States (Harry Thomason, 1959)^[1]^[14]
Passive Solar House, Odeillo, France (Félix Trombe & Jacques Michel, 1967)^[1]^[15]
Steve Baer House, Corrales, New Mexico, United States (Steve Baer, 1971)^[1]^[16]^[17]
Skytherm House, Atascadero, California, United States (Harold R. Hay, 1973)^[1]^[18]^[19]
Solar One, Newark, Delaware, United States (K.W. Böer & Maria Telkes, 1973)^[1]
MIT Solar Building V, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (T.E. Johnson, C.C. Benton, S. Hale, 1978)^[20]^[21]
"Unit One" Balcomb Residence, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States (William Lumpkins, 1979)
The first Zero Energy Design home, Oklahoma, United States (Larry Hartweg, 1979)^[22]^{[citation needed]}
Saunders Shrewsbury House, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States (Norman B. Saunders, 1981)^[1]^[23]
Multiple IEA SHC "Task 13" houses, Worldwide (IEA SHC, 1989)
Multiple passive houses in Darmstadt, Germany (Bott, Ridder & Westermeyer, 1990)^[24]
Heliotrope, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Rolf Disch, 1994)^[25]
The Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, India (Arup, 2002)^[26]
31 Tannery Project, Branchburg, New Jersey, United States (2006)
Sun Ship, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Rolf Disch, 2006)^[25]

[1]
Denzer, Anthony (2013). The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design. Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0847840052. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013.
[2]
Butti, Ken; Perlin, John (1981). A Golden Thread (2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology). Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0-442-24005-8.
[3]
Department of Energy, Milestone Buildings of the 20th Century, archived from the original on 4 February 2008
[4]
Boyce, Robert (1993). Keck & Keck: The Poetics of Comfort. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-878271-17-2.
[5]
Jacobs, Herbert Austin; Katherine Jacobs (1978). Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: an illustrated memoir. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809312917.
[6]
Taylor, Carol (10 August 2008). "Taylor: Nation's first solar-heated home was in Boulder". The Daily Camera. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
[7]
Denzer, Anthony; Novikova-Kinney, Polina, "Arthur T. Brown: Pioneer of Passive Solar Architecture" (PDF), 2010 ASES National Solar Conference, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2011
[8]
Solar Energy Applications in Houses, F Jäger, Pergamon Press, ISBN 0-08-027573-7
[9]
Henry P. Glass and World War II, MIT Design Issues: Volume 22, Number 4 Autumn 2006
[10]
Interiors, August 1950
[11]
First Commercial Solar Building Marks 50th Anniversary
[12]
McVeigh, J.C. (1976). "Developments in solar energy utilisation in the United Kingdom". Solar Energy. 18 (5): 381–385. Bibcode:1976SoEn...18..381M. doi:10.1016/0038-092x(76)90002-5.
[13]
Fleming, Roscoe (27 September 1957). "Solar House in Colorado Cost $40,000". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 15.
[14]
Mother Earth News (November–December 1979), Harry Thomason - Solar Energy (Plowboy Interview)
[15]
Porteous, Colin; Kerr MacGregor (2005). Solar architecture in cool climates. Earthscan. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9781844072811.
[16]
Mother Earth News (July–August 1973), Steve and Holly Baer: Dome Home Enthusiasts (Plowboy Interview)
[17]
"He warms his house with barrels of heat". Popular Science. October 1973.
[18]
Mother Earth News (September–October 1976), Harold R. Hay: Solar Pioneer (Plowboy Interview)
[19]
Marlatt; et al. (1984), Roof Pond Systems: DOE Technical Report (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2022, retrieved 15 November 2009
[20]
MIT Libraries (1978), MIT Buildings: Solar V
[21]
Johnson, Timothy E. (1981), "MIT solar building No. 5: the third year performance", Passive Sol. J.; (United States), 1:3, OSTI 6560657
[22]
"Zero Energy Design ABUNDANT ENERGY in Harmony With Nature". Retrieved 26 November 2010.
[23]
Shurcliff, William A. (1982). Saunders Shrewsbury House. (self-published).
[24]
Passivhaus Institut, archived from the original on 22 March 2008
[25]
Rolf Disch Solar Architecture at the architect's website
[26]
World Architecture Awards - Arup’s education project is a triple award winner Archived 10 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[Denzerbook-1] [1]
Denzer, Anthony (2013). The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design. Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0847840052. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013.

[Butti-2] [2]
Butti, Ken; Perlin, John (1981). A Golden Thread (2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology). Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0-442-24005-8.

[3] [3]
Department of Energy, Milestone Buildings of the 20th Century, archived from the original on 4 February 2008

[4] [4]
Boyce, Robert (1993). Keck & Keck: The Poetics of Comfort. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-878271-17-2.

[5] [5]
Jacobs, Herbert Austin; Katherine Jacobs (1978). Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: an illustrated memoir. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809312917.

[6] [6]
Taylor, Carol (10 August 2008). "Taylor: Nation's first solar-heated home was in Boulder". The Daily Camera. Retrieved 4 November 2009.

[DenzerASES-7] [7]
Denzer, Anthony; Novikova-Kinney, Polina, "Arthur T. Brown: Pioneer of Passive Solar Architecture" (PDF), 2010 ASES National Solar Conference, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2011

[Jäger-8] [8]
Solar Energy Applications in Houses, F Jäger, Pergamon Press, ISBN 0-08-027573-7

[Gorman-9] [9]
Henry P. Glass and World War II, MIT Design Issues: Volume 22, Number 4 Autumn 2006

[10] [10]
Interiors, August 1950

[11] [11]
First Commercial Solar Building Marks 50th Anniversary

[12] [12]
McVeigh, J.C. (1976). "Developments in solar energy utilisation in the United Kingdom". Solar Energy. 18 (5): 381–385. Bibcode:1976SoEn...18..381M. doi:10.1016/0038-092x(76)90002-5.

[13] [13]
Fleming, Roscoe (27 September 1957). "Solar House in Colorado Cost $40,000". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 15.

[14] [14]
Mother Earth News (November–December 1979), Harry Thomason - Solar Energy (Plowboy Interview)

[15] [15]
Porteous, Colin; Kerr MacGregor (2005). Solar architecture in cool climates. Earthscan. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9781844072811.

[16] [16]
Mother Earth News (July–August 1973), Steve and Holly Baer: Dome Home Enthusiasts (Plowboy Interview)

[17] [17]
"He warms his house with barrels of heat". Popular Science. October 1973.

[18] [18]
Mother Earth News (September–October 1976), Harold R. Hay: Solar Pioneer (Plowboy Interview)

[19] [19]
Marlatt; et al. (1984), Roof Pond Systems: DOE Technical Report (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2022, retrieved 15 November 2009

[20] [20]
MIT Libraries (1978), MIT Buildings: Solar V

[21] [21]
Johnson, Timothy E. (1981), "MIT solar building No. 5: the third year performance", Passive Sol. J.; (United States), 1:3, OSTI 6560657

[22] [22]
"Zero Energy Design ABUNDANT ENERGY in Harmony With Nature". Retrieved 26 November 2010.

[23] [23]
Shurcliff, William A. (1982). Saunders Shrewsbury House. (self-published).

[24] [24]
Passivhaus Institut, archived from the original on 22 March 2008

[Disch-25] [25]
Rolf Disch Solar Architecture at the architect's website

[26] [26]
World Architecture Awards - Arup’s education project is a triple award winner Archived 10 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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