Eleanor Raymond and Maria Telkes, Dover Sun House, Dover Massachusetts, 1948 (gallery)

The architect Eleanor Raymond and the MIT engineer Maria Telkes designed the Dover Sun House in 1948. What looks like a second floor of windows was actually a huge heat-collecting panel that fed heated air into three “heat bins,” each in a different room on the floor below. In those bins, chemical salts would absorb … Continue reading Eleanor Raymond and Maria Telkes, Dover Sun House, Dover Massachusetts, 1948 (gallery)Continue Reading Eleanor Raymond and Maria Telkes, Dover Sun House, Dover Massachusetts, 1948 (gallery)