Michael Reynolds has for many years been considered the maverick wicked uncle of American architecture

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His buildings - largely rising out of the New Mexico desert - are not beautiful or elegant, but they are resilient, and have evolved from 30 years' experimental building and design in the field of 'radically sustainable living'.Mike has been helped by a team of enthusiastic counter-culture builders and architects. He believes designers have to be able to experiment and build radically different structures to see how they perform. Mistakes are part of the learning process and are vital in design evolution. He firmly believes in the need to break existing rules in order to improve on the functionality of buildings.He has been labelled a prophet of the green movement, such is his devotion to solving the problems of the consumerist age: too much waste, too little innovation in design, too much dependence on conventional infrastructures, fossil fuels, unsustainable building materials.