The authors of "Learning from Las Vegas" once got a contract to design a fancy repair shed for trains in Pittsburg. They picked one out of a catalog and got the remark "If we wanted this, we should have hired an architect." The architects thought that the application deserved a roof that didn't leak, but didn't deserve a custom design.
The authors of "Domebook" and "Domebook 2"
https://www.worldcat.org/title/domebook-one/oclc/36821926
deliberately took them out of print because they learned the hard way you don't want to live in a geodesic dome. (e.g. for one thing you'll never be able to hang a painting)
I know one alternative housing entrepreneur who has left a string of barely livable buildings in his wake. I know another who had more success because he kept building variations on a theme (A-Frame houses with Japanese-looking details) but even there when somebody lives in them for a year they realize that a square foot of space in a rectangular building is worth a square foot, a square foot in some other building is worth less.