And He Built a Crooked House—” (the quotation marks and dashes being part of the story’s title) is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein first published in Astounding Science Fiction in February 1941,Astounding Science Fiction Feb. 1941, as cited by http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/sea/astounding-science-fiction/4102.htm and http://www.andrew-may.com/asf/list.htm and reprinted in the collection The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag in 1959. The story is about a mathematically-inclined architect named Quintus Teal who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract.