Eikongraphia has posted information about this house in Texas, as with the previous house in Brazil I posted about this is a labor of love that has taken 23 years (and 110 tons of steel) to this date, and it's still unfinished. It's organic shapes and curves remind me of Expressionistic Architecture like the Einstein Tower Observatory by Erich Mendelsohn, and it definitely reminds of the movie Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Robert Bruno is a sculptor (though I haven't found anything else he has done on the web) who, like Richard Serra, works in what apparently is Corten steel. He has built the entire house out of steel, no concrete, and the only wood I've seen is on the stair treads.
Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"Apparently he is influenced, or is of a new manifestation of the Expressionistic movement, although Bruno's work appears to be on the optimistic side of expressionism, instead of the pain and suffering that they usually portray.
The house appears to be a small group of steel trees sprouting out of the ground, the seemingly infinite amount of points of view that the interior offers appears to have come out of the mind of M.C. Escher, you could almost confuse up from down. It is built high on the side of of a river valley, so the views through the asymmetrical windows are incredible. There is little information on the house, for example, is the steel structure double layered so it works as a truss? (I would imagine so), how big is it? (it appears to have at least two floors).
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