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When Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion house in the 1940s he called it perfect — spacious, round, collapsible, aluminum. But the Dymaxion was a spectacular failure and only two of the houses were ever built.

When Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion house in the 1940s he called it perfect — spacious, round, collapsible, aluminum. But the Dymaxion was a spectacular failure and only two of the houses were ever built.