Architect and sculptor Robert Bruno spent the last thirty-five years of his life building this astounding livable sculpture. Using 110 tons of salvaged one-quarter-inch-thick steel plate, he hand-formed and welded this exo-skeleton structure with, as he described it, “somewhat organic qualities, between animal and machine.” A precarious bridge tenuously connects to the road at the high end of the site. The red, rusting structure, all curves and lapping edges of steel plate, perches on three tapered legs and lunges toward the canyon below. Its unblinking eyes focus on views of the horizon in all directions. Bruno’s motivation was to make a large sculpture in which to live; he was “not concerned with having a ‘house.’”
Across the street, another Bruno project, the Lawson Rock House, is more conventional in its Antoni Gaudí–esque corkscrew shape covered with coarse rockwork and colored tiles.