During the 1970s, Bruno taught at Texas Tech while his wife worked at the High Plains Underground Water District, an organization charged with protecting and conserving precious groundwater resources across a large portion of the Llano Estacado.

It is estimated to weigh 110 tons and rests on four hollow legs anchored to the eastern rim of Yellow House Canyon.

The steel house has many large smoothly curving windows, some composed of stained glass while others provide a panoramic view of Lake Ransom Canyon, 150 ft (46 m) below.

[6] In 1991, Mark Lawson asked him to design another house to occupy a nearby vacant lot in Ransom Canyon.

Bruno, Rick Denser (general contractor), Manfred Kaiter (master stone mason), and Lawson started work on the rock house in 1991.