About Me

                      
                         I am an inventor. I grew up in
                         Los Angeles with my parents and
                         brother.  My father had a
                         small workshop in the back
                         yard where he taught me how to
                         use tools and let me tinker as
                         much as I pleased. During
                         vacations and in the summers I
                         stayed at our family’s ranch near
Lompoc where there were more tools, a bigger shop and
a creek and a river. I have always been fascinated by
water, wind and the power of the sun.

I graduated from Midland
High School in 1956
(the only diploma I have).
I was fortunate to be a student
of Theodore Baird at Amherst
College, studied Mathematics
and Physics at Amherst and at
the ETH in Zurich. I married
in 1960, served 3 years in the military and have two
grown children and four grandchildren.  
                                      
I am president of Zomeworks Corporation, established in
1969, to develop and manufacture products, many of my
invention.  Our first products were crystal-like buildings
called Zomes, 31-zone system modeling kits and space
frame climbing structures. Zomeworks also builds
passive solar trackers and cabinets and shelters that heat
and cool using natural convection and radiation.  
Currently Zomeworks is also developing methods for
heating and cooling buildings with unglazed
metal collectors that double as roofs and walls. The
products are simple and beautiful, as well as energy
efficient and cost effective.  

The views expressed on this website are my own and
those of others whose names appear with their work. I do
not believe in government planned economies.  I hope
readers will take an interest in these ideas.  

Holly and I live with
our dogs in a house
we built 35 years ago
(before the first tax
credit craze). It is a
cluster of Zomes
(rhombic dodecahedra)
passively solar heated
using barrels filled with water on the south walls with
seasonally adjusted reflector/shade doors, Zomeworks
Sunbender® reflector/shades, Skylid™ insulating
louvers, compact fluorescent lights, a Sunfrost™
refrigerator, solar water heaters and a photovoltaic array
on a Zomeworks passive solar
Track Rack™ that operates a jack pump for our water.

I have not learned how to use e-mail, or even type.  If
you wish to communicate please write me at: Post Office
Box 1327, Corrales, New Mexico 87048.