His other buildings weren't so wildly divergent from the consensus about good building design either. The closest seems to be his University of Michigan graduat

His other buildings weren't so wildly divergent from the consensus about good building design either. The closest seems to be his University of Michigan graduate housing. In the building he does have windowless dorm rooms (often complained about) but there's only 7 of them off a shared kitchen and living room space instead of 70+. He took the design of Munger Hall and scaled it up almost directly with some rearranging and scaling, each room on the somewhat successful [0] UM Munger Dorm becomes a new pod of smaller rooms. The designs are so different the relative success of the UM dorm shouldn't transfer much credibility to the design of the UCSB dorm. Going from sharing a lit common space with 7 people to 70 people is a massive change in the dynamics of those spaces. At a very basic level the UM space is owned and controlled by few enough people you can call it semi-private. At the UCSB level it's just a full public space which is a different dynamic. https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2021/11/03/heres-what-its-like-to-live-in-one-of-charlie-mungers-windowless-dorms/ https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2021/11/03/heres-what-its-like-... https://i.redd.it/81yfb7wkxby51.jpg https://i.redd.it/81yfb7wkxby51.jpg https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/11/munger-hall-university-of-california-santa-barbara-floor-plan_dezeen_2364_col_0-852x613.jpg https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/11/munger-hall-univer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__cfVWiAxSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__cfVWiAxSU [0] I say somewhat because people hate the windowless individual rooms it has enough amenities that they still rate it highly. He's fully banking on the fake windows making the new smaller rooms palatable. While massively increasing the number of people you have to share your nearest source of natural light with. edit: even that conclusion isn't universal some people had a pretty bad time living in those dorms https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/qkmp5h/i_was_a_university_of_michigan_student_who_lived/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/qkmp5h/i_wa...