The solar house pioneering sustainable design serves then a simple purpose it relates in considerable detail the fascinating story of midcentury attempts at creating houses that harnessed the sun in terms of architectural history this book extends our understanding beyond that of great makers and monuments to other kinds of design agendas but perhaps the larger charge for a book like . This review of the solar house pioneering sustainable design by anthony denzer discusses the important contributions of this book to the history of midcentury modern architecture and considers the role of solar houses in the context of current debates over sustainability. Starting with the father of solar design fred keck the solar house pioneering sustainable design posits the solar powered house not as the embodiment of radicalism but rather a non partisan influential approach to domestic design that can be traced back in its modern form to the 1930s looking at singular houses designed by frank lloyd wright in the 1940s as well as the . The first comprehensive study of the development of solar house design in the united states and around the world the solar house explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today the solar house is often understood as a product of the 1970s and few people are aware of the influential experimental solar . The solar house pioneering sustainable design written by anthony denzer the first comprehensive study of the development of solar house design in the united states and around the world the solar house explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today the solar house is often understood as a product of the