Thinking about taking a road trip to New Mexico? If so, you should spend the night at the 600-acre Greater World Earthship Community, an architectural anomaly just 20 minutes outside of downtown Taos.

Michael E Reynolds (also in the Wallpaper* USA 400) founded the unorthodox utopian Earthship community here in the early 1970s, with the goal of building homes that don’t use fossil fuels or generate ...

First and foremost is the lack of a utility bill," explains architect and Earthship inventor Mike Reynolds. "They say they're very quiet, and they are. You're in a solid, earthen building ...