Remembering Gordon Tully
I wonder if anyone one the site remembers the Architect,Gordon Tully. I just heard from his wife that Gordon passed away this week.
I worked with Gordon back in the late seventies and early eighties, when I was a young Architect, on all kinds of energy conserving, passive solar, and PV designs. We did numerous studies for SERI modeling lots of different passive solar strategies. Gordon was rightfully skeptical of may of the over-hyped passive solar schemes of that time. We also did early photovoltaic research with General Electric to develop a PV shingle, and built what I believe was the first prototypical PV array on a building Massachusetts. (Back then an inverter cost $100,000 and you could a build a decent house for that budget.)
Many of the approaches to energy conservation that we think of as cutting edge today were developed back then and Gordon was on the front line of those developments.
He was a great mentor to me and I will miss him.
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Yes, I remember Gordon Tully. He used to write the design column for the Journal of Light Construction, and worked for years at Stephen Winter Associates in Norwalk, CT.
I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
I remember Gordon well. I worked for him at his firm, Tully & Ingersoll, in Somerville, MA in the mid/late-1980s. He was a fascinating guy with a wealth of knowledge and a ton of patience for me in what was the beginning of my professional career.