This is the way I heard it.

Back in 1974, long before he became a household name, the legendary architect was struggling

to make ends meet.

He was a professor in those days teaching architectural design at the College of Applied

Arts in Budapest and wondering what it might be like to be rich.

Well, he was about to find out, thanks to a groundbreaking structure that he was about

to design, a structure that would transform an industry and make him the wealthiest architect

who ever lived.

Long after his revolutionary designs began to appear in every major city, this wealthiest

of architects sat down with CNN and revealed the secret of his enormous success.

Space, he said, has always intrigued me, specifically the alteration of space by architectural

objects and the repercussions of that alteration on man, space, time, and the object itself.

Of course, CNN didn't exist back in 1974, and the press wasn't terribly interested

with the teaching methods of a non-traditional architect who liked to experiment in his

classroom.

Thus, no one reported on the strange evolution of his initial prototype, a meticulously

fabricated model consisting of 26 individual units, each perfectly symmetrical with the

other, each capable of moving within the structure itself.

At a glance, the blueprints proposed a design that appeared to be both uninhabitable and

beyond the limits of modern construction.

At base, it was a modular structure that offered endless possibilities.

Possibilities the greatest minds and architecture had never even contemplated.

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