The word "zome" was coined in 1968 by Steve Durkee, now known as Nooruddeen Durkee, combining the words dome and zonohedron.
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Home Work, a book published in 2004 and edited by Lloyd Kahn, has a section featuring these buildings.
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Both the building and the learning tool are the brainchildren of inventor/designer Steve Baer, his wife, Holly, and associates.
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In New Mexico, he experimented with constructing buildings of unusual geometries (calling them by his friend Steve Durkee's term: "zomes" — see "Drop City") — buildings intended to be appropriate to their environment, notably to utilize solar energy well.