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]

M.I.T. Solar House #1

See also

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

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