A five-unit live/work project in Scottsdale, Ariz., Loloma 5 reflects Bruder’s growing interest in urban infill sites.
Unlike Bruder's highly individualized single-family work, Loloma 5 required that he design for a hypothetical owner.
After one of the actual owners at Loloma 5 became his wife, Bruder lived in one of the units (shown) for six years.
Built on a difficult infill site, the Hill/Sheppard Residence carves out private spaces and distant views amid a jumble of neighboring buildings.
The Hill/Sheppard Residence kitchen.
“Weeping” mortar—a move drawn from the local vernacular—adds texture to the Hill/Sheppard residence's concrete masonry walls
The Nellis/Cox Residence features a flowing, curvilinear floor plan.
Deeply embedded in its desert site, the Nellis/Cox Residence contrasts the roughness of broken-block masonry walls with the refinement of interior shoji panels.
Combining utilitarian materials and subtly sophisticated geometry, Bruder’s own house in the desert outside Phoenix brought him to national attention.
The Bruder Residence’s corrugated metal siding anticipated the material’s use by prominent architects such as Frank Gehry.
In shape and color, the Phoenix Central Library suggests an urban mesa.
The Phoenix Central Library wears a skin of rusted steel with corrugations oversized to match its scale.
The library’s top floor reading room rises to an exposed tensegrity roof structure.
Circular skylights top the reading room’s concrete columns at the Phoenix Central Library.
At the Byrne Residence, the void between wall and roof planes is a classic Bruder move.
Laid in corbeled courses, the Byrne Residence’s concrete masonry suggests slanted canyon walls.
The Jarson Residence employs a simple gesture—a folded plane of rusted steel that forms one wall and the roof—to create a powerful sense of shelter.
The Jarson Residence living area opens to a broad view of desert and sky.
