In Tucson’s residential market a few privately funded commission continued to utilized the tenets of the brutalist movement beyond the early 1970s.  One notable example was architect Judith Chafee’s Rieveschl House built in 1988 at 7046 North Javelina Drive, in Tucson Skyline Country Club. The house set on the hillside, on the edge of the Santa Catalina Mountain range. The building utilized exposed concrete structural systems and glass to create a honest form that seems to float above the Sonoran desert.  The large house is an architectural masterpiece that elegantly marked an end of the era.  

(Written by Demion Clinco, Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation)