List of pioneering solar buildings

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

  • MIT Solar House #1, MassachusettsUnited 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 BuildingAlbuquerque, New Mexico, United States (Frank Bridgers & Don Paxton, 1956)[1][11]
  • University of Toronto House, TorontoOntarioCanada (EA Allcut, 1956)[8][citation needed]
  • Solar House, TokyoJapan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1956)[1][8]
  • Solar House, BristolUnited 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, CasablancaMorocco (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, OdeilloFrance (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 DarmstadtGermany (Bott, Ridder & Westermeyer, 1990)[24]
  • HeliotropeFreiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Rolf Disch, 1994)[25]
  • The Druk White Lotus SchoolLadakhIndia (Arup, 2002)[26]
  • 31 Tannery ProjectBranchburg, New Jersey, United States (2006)
  • Sun Ship, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Rolf Disch, 2006)[25]
M.I.T. Solar House #1


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