Steve Baer
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Steve Baer was an American solar energy inventor and pioneer of passive solar technology. Originally, as a largely self-taught designer and builder, he worked on small projects in Colorado and New Mex
Baer in 1974
Baer inside a highly efficient greenhouse he built for a school in Albuquerque, NM (1974)
Zome house using solar heating built near Corrales, New Mexico, designed by Steve Baer.
Dome Cookbook front cover
Drop City
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Drop City was a counterculture artists' community that formed near the town of Trinidad in southern Colorado in 1960. Abandoned by 1979, Drop City became known as the first rural "hippie commune".
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…sheet metal as the main exterior material. Some of the earliest experiments were carried out in cooperation with members of the intentional communities Drop City and Maniera Nueva. During this period, he met and worked with Day Charhoudi, also a young solar experimenter, who taught him some principles of physics…
Drop City
The Ultimate Painting, by Drop Artists, 1966, acrylic on panel, 60" × 60"
Pythagorean Tree, by Drop Artists, 1967, acrylic on panel, 48" diam.
2010 Utopien arche 04