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University of California abandons plans to build "windowless dorm" Munger Hall
- 0x486566e7279 3y agoAugust 9th 2023
- danso 3y agoDidn’t realize until now that Munger died, probably explains why this story got bumped into my newsfeed
- iwontberude 3y ago"artificial windows are better than real windows" said Munger
- mey 3y agoWhat funding shortfalls?
- 2C64 3y agoPeople, some more so than others, are essentially house plants. They need light, water, and to occasionally be shaken vigorously to encourage strong growth. This dorm seemed more akin to a Kennett Square mushroom farm than a greenhouse - better suited to fungi.
- drewcoo 3y ago> inspired by Le Corbusier Say no more . . .
- yowzadave 3y agoI suspect the claim to inspiration from Le Corbusier was an invention by the architect-of-record to defuse criticism of the (cheap, terrifying, stylistically vacant) design by associating it with a more progressively-tinged architectural icon. The design is very unlike anything Corbusier designed; perhaps the only similarity is in the megalomania behind the concept.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoOlder UC Davis housing were brutalist, terrible cinderblock and concrete dormitories that looked like vertical military barracks. Some of the newer ones were "public-private partnerships" that were essentially regular apartment buildings.