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Wind Generator, 1976
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Great Petaluma Mill Historic Restoration, 1976
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Winters Building Historic Restoration, 1978
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Hotel Mac Historic Restoration, 1978
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"Richmond Plunge" Restoration, 1977
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Murray Residence, 1976
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Stanford University Solar Project, 1978
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Cafe Flore San Francisco, 1975
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Fanslow Residence, Solar Home, 1977
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McDonald Residence, 1975
Goode Residence, 1976
IR solar home makes the cover of Sunset
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The energy crisis resulting from the Middle East oil embargo was already in full swing when Interactive Resources
formed in 1973. Responding to widespread panic characterized by long lines at service stations and rapidly rising
energy prices, the firm quickly gained a reputation for energy-efficient design and alternative energy
applications, and in 1976, erected the first (and at the time, also the largest) wind generator to feed power into an
electrical grid in California. Some of the first "solar" homes in California were designed by Interactive Resources,
and the firm initiated, and for several years sponsored, statewide conferences on the use of solar and wind energy.
Interactive Resources' work in California in the 1970's and early 1980's influenced subsequent state energy
conservation legislation and sped the incorporation of energy conservation considerations into the mainstream of
California architectural practice.