Books and articles by Steve Baer, and key works cited by him across the archive.
| Title | Publisher | Year | Archive status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dome Cookbook | Lama Foundation, Corrales, NM (cookbook fund) | 1968 (first printing); 1969 (third printing); price $1.00 | Ingested (2nd printing scan, 44pp) — see sidecar; "today's terrifying man made world" |
| Flow Shot 1 | cookbook fund - Lama Foundation | ~1968 | Confirmed published; not in archive. Listed on Dome Cookbook cover as co-published. |
| Sol Shot 1 | cookbook fund - Lama Foundation | ~1968 | Confirmed published; poster in possession, pending ingest. Listed on Dome Cookbook cover. "Sol" likely = solar — if so, Baer's earliest solar publication, predating Sunspots (1975) by ~7 years. |
| Zome Primer: Elements of Zonohedra Geometry | Zomeworks Corporation | 1970 | Ingested — see Zome |
| Sunspots: Collected Facts and Solar Fiction | Zomeworks Corporation | 1975 | Ingested (1975 ed.) — see Sunspots, Skylid, DrumWall |
| Sunspots: An Exploration of Solar Energy Through Fact and Fiction | Cloudburst Press | 1979 (ISBN 0-88930-061-3, 127pp) | In collection, not yet ingested. 19pp shorter than the 1977 Zomeworks printing (146pp) — content differences unknown until compared. Nick Pine's 1995 Usenet post quotes pp. 62–66 on Air Loop Rock Storage Systems. |
| More Sunspots | Zomeworks Corporation | 2012 (ISBN 978-0-9883270-0-9) | Not in archive; cover image ingested (raw-sources/9780988327009-us.jpg) |
| Solar energy serialization (untitled) | Tribal Messenger newsletter | 1973 | Ingested (49 files) — see Tribal Messenger solar serialization |
Baer introduced the 1973 serialization as "an informal first draft" of a solar book — whether it was ever published in book form is unknown from the archive.
| Title | Publication | Date | Archive status |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Gravity Engines and the Diving Engine" | Coevolution Quarterly, pp. 80-87 | Summer 1974 | Not in archive |
| Sunmen | Zomeworks (pamphlet) | May 2004 | Ingested — see Sunmen |
| "Tax, Shine, and Sunshine" | — | ~2000 | Ingested — see Tax, shine, and sunshine |
| "Sunny Days Ahead!" | — | July 2000 | Ingested — see Sunny days ahead |
| "CO₂ and Global Warming" | — | June 2000 | Ingested — see Sunny days ahead |
| "To irrigate we should pump our rivers over again" | Corrales Comment | July 8, 2000 | Ingested — see Corrales Comment |
| "Consider Perihelion" | Zomeworks | January 4, 2004 | Ingested — see Consider perihelion |
| "Unglazed Solar Collectors for Solar Water Heaters" | Zomeworks SunPaper | March 2003 | Ingested — see Unglazed solar collectors |
| Title | Publication | Date | Archive status |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Cooling with Night Air" | SUNPAPER (solar newsletter) | January 1984 | Ingested — see cooling with night air sidecar; Baer House temp data Aug 1983; U₀ ventilation theory; LASL critique |
| "Concentrating Skylights, Insulation and Ventilation" | Home Remedies, Mid Atlantic Solar Energy Association | 1980 | Not in archive; cited in 1984 SUNPAPER essay |
Sol Shot 1 — poster in possession, not yet scanned. Published by the cookbook fund / Lama Foundation network, listed on the Dome Cookbook cover as co-published. If "Sol" = solar, this would be Baer's earliest solar publication (~1968), predating the Tribal Messenger serialization (1973) and Sunspots (1975) by years. May contain early solar heating ideas concurrent with the closing note in Dome Cookbook: "I am working on heating and cooling systems — so far without much luck."
Flow Shot 1 — confirmed published by the same fund; not in archive and no copy known to be in possession.
| Title | Author/Editor | Publisher | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design | eds. Margot McDonald & Carolina Dayer | Routledge | 2018 | ISBN 978-1-138-74143-0. Chapter 4, "Harold Hay's influence and the Zomeworks Corporation," authored by Steve Baer — primary source on the Hay→Zomeworks connection. Also ch. 12 on Hay's roof pond in cold climates; ch. 15 on resilience as driver of passive design. |
| Steve Baer and the double-play thermosiphon | Cem S. Kayatekin | ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology | 2025 | Academic paper establishing the Baer House as origin of a broadly overlooked chapter of American engineering history. Ingested — see compiled page. |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Use of the Sun's Energy | Farrington Daniels | Yale University Press | 1964 (3rd printing 1971) | ISBN 0-300-0399-4. Canonical pre-oil-crisis solar science survey. Ch. 8.4 Water Ponds predates Hay's Skytherm by 3 years. Ch. 12 Selective Radiation Surfaces. Ch. 13 Cooling. In archive — ch. content pending ingest. |
| Passive Solar Handbook, Vols. I–III | Architectural Energy Corp. (Holtz) | USAF Engineering Directorate | c. 1985 | 3-volume set in archive. Vol. I: Introduction (11 concepts; passive cooling = air-based NMV/NVN only). Vol. II: Comprehensive Planning Guide (energy data tables, 18 building types, multiple climate regions). Vol. III: Programming Guide (21pp; DD Form 1391 and facility document procedures). No Hay/Baer/Zomeworks in any volume. Documents the institutional mainstream that defined "passive cooling" as ventilation, not night-sky radiation. |
Sourced from https://wiki.solarfool.org/en/reading_list (2026-05-14). Items marked ✅ are in archive; others are candidates for future ingest.
| Title | Author | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Solar Home Book: Heating, Cooling and Designing with the Sun | Bruce Anderson & Michael Riordan | 1976 | Contextualizes Baer within broader passive solar movement. Cheshire Books. |
| A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology | Ken Butti & John Perlin | 1980 | Historical context for Baer's innovations. In Joule Heist (289pp, ISBN 978-0-917352-07-2). |
| Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace | Amory Lovins | 1977 | Complements Baer's philosophy. Also in LBL AET library. In Joule Heist (240pp, ISBN 978-0-060906-53-5). |
| The Passive Solar Energy Book | Edward Mazria | 1979 | ISBN 978-0-878572-38-0. Also in USAF handbook suggested reading. In Joule Heist (687pp — expanded professional ed.). |
| Passive Solar Design Handbook (Vols. I–III) | J. Douglas Balcomb et al. | 1980–84 | U.S. Dept. of Energy / Los Alamos National Laboratory. The definitive technical reference; became industry standard. Different from the USAF handbook. Vol. 3 in Joule Heist (668pp, ISBN 978-0-895531-06-3, pub. American Solar Energy Society, 1983). |
| Passive Solar Architecture: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting and More Using Natural Flows | David Bainbridge & Ken Haggard | — | Bainbridge co-founded Passive Solar Institute. Haggard co-founded NMSEA with Baer and Van Dresser (1972). |
| Passive Solar House Basics | Peter Van Dresser | — | ISBN 978-0-941270-90-8. NM pioneer; built first passive solar houses in NM in 1950s. In Joule Heist. |
| A Landscape for Humans | Peter Van Dresser | 1976 | 128pp, ISBN 978-0-890160-05-3. Sustainable living and appropriate technology in NM. In Joule Heist. |
| Homegrown Sundwellings | Peter Van Dresser | 1977 | 135pp, ISBN 978-0-890160-33-6. Passive solar house design in NM. In Joule Heist. |
| The Solar Home Book: Heating, Cooling and Designing with the Sun | Bruce Anderson & Michael Riordan | 1976 | 297pp, ISBN 978-0-917352-01-0. Contextualizes Baer in broader passive solar movement. In Joule Heist. |
| Natural Solar Architecture: The Passive Solar Primer | David Wright | 1984 | 272pp, ISBN 978-0-442293-65-9. In Joule Heist (2 copies). |
| Super Solar Houses | William A. Shurcliff | 1983 | 140pp, ISBN 978-0-931790-48-5. In Joule Heist. Not otherwise in wiki. |
| "Zome Geometry" | George W. Hart & Henri Picciotto | — | Expands on mathematical principles of Baer's structural designs; intersects with Zometool/Paul Hildebrandt. |
| Drop City | Peter Rabbit (Peter Douthit) | 1971 | First-person account of Drop City commune by a member; Olympia Press. Peter Rabbit is named in the Drop City documentary (c. 2002) as a Libre commune member at Richert's wedding. Ordered — pending ingest. |
| Domebook One | Lloyd Kahn | 1970 | Whole Earth Catalog era; features Drop City. Also in LBL AET library. |
| Domebook 2 | Lloyd Kahn | 1971 | 160,000 copies before pulled. |
| Shelter | Lloyd Kahn & Bob Easton | 1973 | "Domebook 3" — global vernacular building. In Joule Heist (176pp, ISBN 978-0-936070-11-7). |
| "Living Off the Grid with Steve Baer" | — | Mother Earth News, 1970s | Documents Baer's Zomeworks compound. Priority pending ingest. |
| Work | Author | Publisher | Year | Where cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How Buildings Work | Ed Allen | Oxford University Press | 1995 | Di-thermal roofs (ceiling vs floor radiant systems) |
| Sun, Earth, Time and Man | Harrison | Rand McNally | 1960 | Antarctic heat collector |
| Solar Radiation (ed.) | N. Robinson | Elsevier | — | Antarctic heat collector |
| Atmospheres | Goody & Walker | Prentice-Hall | — | Antarctic heat collector (climates of other planets) |
| Energy and Society | Fred Cottrell | McGraw-Hill | 1955 | Sunspots Ch. 2 |
| Dimensional Analysis | P.W. Bridgeman | Yale Press | 1922 | Sunspots Ch. 2 |
| "Diurnal Radiant Exchange with the Sky Dome" | Cramer & Newbauer | Solar Energy Journal Vol. 9 #1 | 1964 | Cool Cell work leading up (roofs vs walls) |
| "The Wig-Wag" | Hugh W. Brodie | Solar Energy Journal Vol. 9 No. 1 | 1965 | Skylid (Franklin pulse-glass prior use) |
| "Use of Latent Energy of Vaporization in Energy Reservoirs" | R.C. Hall | Solar Energy Journal Vol. 8 No. 3 | 1964 | Skylid driving canisters |
| Work | Author | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Polytopes | H.S.M. Coxeter | Macmillan | 1948/1963 |
| Mathematical Models | Cundy & Rollett | Oxford | 1951/1961 |
| Geometry and the Imagination | Hilbert & Cohn-Vossen | Chelsea | 1952 |
| Space Grid Structures | John Borrego | MIT Press | 1968 |
| The Turning Point of Building | Konrad Wachsmann | Reinhold | 1961 |
| On Growth and Form | D'Arcy Thompson | Cambridge | 1942/1963 |
| Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers | Hoggatt | Houghton Mifflin | 1969 |
| Soap Bubbles | C.V. Boy | Dover Press | — |
| Patterns in Nature | Peter Steven | Little, Brown | — |