The Bavinger House was designed by Bruce Goff for Eugene and Nancy Bavinger in 1950. The form of the house is comprised of a spiral wall constructed from local stone, which culminates in a tower at the center of the spiral. Cable supports were used to hang the roof structure. Inside the house was filled with pools and planting beds, creating the sense that the outdoors and indoors were continuous. Bedrooms consisted of hanging pods, visible from the main living space on the ground level. Goff used local, found and scrap materials such as slag glass. Bavinger built the house over a number of years with the help of students from the art and architecture programs at OU as well his neighbor, engineer and architect William “Bill” Wilson. The Bavinger House was considered one of Goff’s most important works and was awarded the American Institute of Architects 25-year award in 1987. The house was destroyed in 2011.