Born in 1938, Steve Baer is currently president of the Zomeworks Corporation. A number of important projects – from the irregular domes of Drop City to the community of Manera Nueva - have marked both the life and the imagination of one of the first ecologist architects. But it is perhaps more appropriate to explain his achievements in terms of his main experimental discoveries: the Beadwall solar wall, the Track Rack solar collector – or his numerous scientific and constructional works in the field of solar design and self-building, which include the “Dome Cookbook” and the “Zome Primer”. ... more