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Re:Interview with Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm by throwaway2331 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @11:19AM (#29130931)
> Surprisingly, he said he doesn’t believe universities should allow donors to choose architects. “If you allow the donor to pick the architect, which has been done in many places, the buildings look like shit. But this is a special case. I’ve been doing it for a long time and I know more about it. And I have a very good architect helping me, Navy F. Banvard [a principal at VTBS Architects], who’s one of California’s biggest apartment house architects.” VTBS is the architect of record for the project. [0]

> Munger said he based the dorm’s design on the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier. [0]

> Given that the concrete housing block [Unité d'Habitation] in question has also been known as ‘La Maison du Fada’, or the ‘House of the Crazy’, by local people and even residents with a sense of humour,[1]

> During the long phone interview, Munger said that with a large brood of children and grandchildren, he is “intimately familiar with university housing.” [0]

Local Nonagenarian billionaire, raised through the great depression, serving in World War II, somehow still allowed to make decisions concerning others. Whole world shocked.

[0] https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15378-exclusive...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130423-design-icon-or-...

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Re:Interview with Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm by fennecfoxen on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:04PM (#29131872)
> Munger said he based the dorm’s design on the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille by Le Corbusier.

And in typical LeCorb style: it’s a top-down design for little people who have no souls, to live like the people in charge think they ought. Personal space is unimportant; privacy is an afterthought, because your life is not important except as part of a unified collective, which we, the elites, will manage to our own ends.

Glorified common areas — dark and puny individual cells.

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