List of Pioneering Solar Buildings

The following buildings have been recognized as being of international significance in pioneering the use of modern engineered solar building design:

  • MIT Solar House #1, Massachusetts, USA (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1939)
  • Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, USA (George Fred Keck, 1940)
  • Jacobs House II "Solar Hemicycle", near Madison, Wisconsin, USA (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1944)
  • Löf House, Boulder, Colorado, USA (George Löf, 1945)
  • Rosenberg House, Tucson, Arizona, USA (Arthur T. Brown, 1946)
  • MIT Solar House #2, USA, (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1947)
  • Peabody House (Dover Sun House, MIT Solar House #6), Dover, Massachusetts, USA (Eleanor Raymond & Maria Telkes, 1948)
  • Rose Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona, USA (Arthur T. Brown, 1948)
  • MIT Solar House #3, USA, (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1949)
  • New Mexico State College House, New Mexico, USA (Lawrence Gardenhire, 1953)
  • Lefever Solar House, Pennsylvania, USA (HR Lefever, 1954)
  • Bliss House, Amado, Arizona, USA (Raymond W. Bliss & M. K. Donavan, 1954)
  • Solar Building, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (Frank Bridgers & Don Paxton, 1956)
  • University of Toronto House, Toronto, Canada (EA Allcut, 1956)
  • Solar House, Tokyo, Japan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1956)
  • Solar House, Bristol, United Kingdom (L Gardner, 1956)
  • Curtis House, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom (Edward JW Curtis, 1956)
  • Löf House, Denver, Colorado, USA (James M. Hunter & George Löf, 1957)
  • AFASE "Living With the Sun" House, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (Peter Lee, Robert L. Bliss & John Yellott, 1958)
  • MIT Solar House #4, USA (Hoyt C. Hottel & others, 1958)
  • Solar House, Casablanca, Morocco (CM Shaw & Associates, 1958)
  • Solar House, Nagoya, Japan (Masanosuke Yanagimachi, 1958)
  • Curtiss-Wright "Sun Court," Princeton, New Jersey, USA (Maria Telkes & Aladar Olgyay, 1958)
  • Thomason Solar House "Solaris" #1, Washington D.C., USA, (Harry Thomason, 1959)
  • Passive Solar House, Odeillo, France, (Félix Trombe & Jacques Michel, 1967)
  • Steve Baer House, Corrales, New Mexico, USA (Steve Baer, 1971)
  • Skytherm House, Atascadero, California, USA (Harold R. Hay, 1973)
  • Solar One, Newark, Delaware, USA (K.W. Böer & Maria Telkes, 1973)
  • First Zero Energy Design U.S. Department Of Energy supported home 1979
  • Saunders Shrewsbury House, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA (Norman B. Saunders, 1981)
  • IEA Task 13 Solar Low Energy Buildings (various, 1989)
  • Passive Houses in Darmstadt, Germany, (Bott, Ridder & Westermeyer, 1990)
  • Heliotrope, First PlusEnergy building worldwide - first to create more energy than it uses. (Rolf Disch, 1994)
  • The Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh, India, (World Architecture Awards, 2002)
  • 31 Tannery Project - First Net Zero Electric Commercial Building in the United States (various, 2006)
  • Sun Ship, First PlusEnergy commercial building worldwide - first retail & commercial building to create more energy than it uses. (Rolf Disch, 2006)

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