List of pioneering solar buildings explained

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]}
• Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, United States (George Fred Keck, 1940)^{[1] [3]}
• "Solar Hemicycle", near Madison, Wisconsin, United States (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1944)^{[1] [4]}
• Löf House, Boulder, Colorado, United States (George Löf, 1945)^{[1] [2] [5]}
• Rosenberg House, Tucson, Arizona, United States (Arthur T. Brown, 1946)^[1]
• MIT Solar House #2, United States, (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1947)^{[1] [6]}
• Peabody House ("Dover Sun House", MIT Solar House #6), Dover, Massachusetts, United States (Eleanor Raymond & Mária Telkes, 1948)^{[1] [2]}
• Henry P. Glass House, Northfield, Illinois, United States (Henry P. Glass, 1948)^{[7] [8]}
• Rose Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona, United States (Arthur T. Brown, 1948)^[1]
• MIT Solar House #3, United States, (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1949)^{[1] [2]}
• New Mexico State College House, New Mexico, United States (Lawrence Gardenhire, 1953)
• Lefever Solar House, Pennsylvania, United States (HR Lefever, 1954)
• Bliss House, Amado, Arizona, United States (Raymond W. Bliss & M. K. Donavan, 1954)^[1]
• Solar Building, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States (Frank Bridgers & Don Paxton, 1956)^[1]
• University of Toronto House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (EA Allcut, 1956)
• Solar House, Tokyo, Japan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1956)^[1]
• Solar House, Bristol, United Kingdom (L Gardner, 1956)
• Curtis House, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom (Edward JW Curtis, 1956)^[9]
• Löf House, Denver, Colorado, United States (James M. Hunter & George Löf, 1957)^{[1] [10]}
• 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]}
• Solar House, Casablanca, Morocco (CM Shaw & Associates, 1958)^[1]
• Solar House, Nagoya, Japan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1958)^[1]
• 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]
• Passive Solar House, Odeillo, France (Félix Trombe & Jacques Michel, 1967)^{[1] [11]}
• Steve Baer House, Corrales, New Mexico, United States (Steve Baer, 1971)^{[1] [12]}
• Skytherm House, Atascadero, California, United States (Harold R. Hay, 1973)^[1]
• 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)
• "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)^[13]
• Saunders Shrewsbury House, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States (Norman B. Saunders, 1981)^{[1] [14]}
• Multiple IEA SHC "Task 13" houses, Worldwide (IEA SHC, 1989)
• Multiple passive houses in Darmstadt, Germany (Bott, Ridder & Westermeyer, 1990)
• Heliotrope, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Rolf Disch, 1994)^[15]
• The Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, India (Arup, 2002)^[16]
• 31 Tannery Project, Branchburg, New Jersey, United States (2006)
• Sun Ship, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Rolf Disch, 2006)

See also

• Passive solar building design
• History of passive solar building design
• Low-energy house
• Energy-plus-house
• Sustainable development

Notes and References

1. Book: Denzer , Anthony . The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design . Rizzoli . 2013 . 978-0847840052 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130726200811/http://solarhousehistory.com/book/ . 26 July 2013 .
2. Book: Butti, Ken. Perlin, John . 1981. A Golden Thread (2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology). registration. Van Nostrand Reinhold. 0-442-24005-8.
3. Book: Boyce , Robert . Keck & Keck: The Poetics of Comfort . Princeton Architectural Press . 1993 . Princeton, NJ . 1-878271-17-2.
4. Book: Jacobs , Herbert Austin . Katherine Jacobs . Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: an illustrated memoir . SIU Press . 1978 . 9780809312917 .
5. News: Taylor: Nation's first solar-heated home was in Boulder . Taylor, Carol . The Daily Camera . 2008-08-10 . 2009-11-04 .
6. Solar Energy Applications in Houses, F Jäger, Pergamon Press,
7. Henry P. Glass and World War II, MIT Design Issues: Volume 22, Number 4 Autumn 2006
8. Interiors, August 1950
9. McVeigh . J.C. . Developments in solar energy utilisation in the United Kingdom . Solar Energy . 18 . 5 . 381–385 . 1976 . 10.1016/0038-092x(76)90002-5 . 1976SoEn...18..381M .
10. News: Solar House in Colorado Cost $40,000 . Fleming, Roscoe . The Christian Science Monitor. 27 September 1957 . 15.
11. Book: Porteous , Colin . Kerr MacGregor . Solar architecture in cool climates . Earthscan . 2005 . 88–89 . 9781844072811 .
12. He warms his house with barrels of heat . Popular Science . Oct 1973 .
13. Web site: Zero Energy Design ABUNDANT ENERGY in Harmony With Nature . 2010-11-26 .
14. Book: Shurcliff, William A. . William Shurcliff . Saunders Shrewsbury House . (self-published) . 1982 .
15. Rolf Disch Solar Architecture at the architect's website
16. http://www.arup.com/arup/newsitem.cfm?pageid=968 World Architecture Awards - Arup’s education project is a triple award winner