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Charlie Munger was an advocate of residential buildings that have virtual windows (letting in "artificially created sunlight") instead of actual windows. Before
by cs702 2y ago
Charlie Munger was an advocate of residential buildings that have virtual windows (letting in "artificially created sunlight") instead of actual windows. Before his death he proposed such a residential building for UCSB:
https://news.ucsb.edu/2021/020455/munger-hall-qa https://news.ucsb.edu/2021/020455/munger-hall-qa
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15378-exclusive-interview-with-billionaire-charlie-munger-on-controversial-ucsb-dorm https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15378-exclusive...
Needless to say, conventionally minded experts of all stripes vociferously objected to it, including architects:
https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/the-munger-dorm-is-bad-but-why_o https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/the-munge...
...But I wonder if maybe cities should conduct small-scale tests of Munger's ideas to find out if they help put all that abandoned office space to good use.
- mplewis 2y agoCharlie Munger was a weird freak who fancied himself an architect. The only thing that qualified him to design a ridiculous building for UCSB was donating an insane amount of money to UCSB.
- bnralt 2y agoI don’t get the point. From what I can see, dorms construction often costs around $70,000. Munger was advocating that we get rid of windows and put students in exceptionally tiny rooms, and the cost will be about $267,000 per student? How is this an advantage?
- currymj 2y agoas i understand it, the theory was that it would discourage the undergraduates from hanging out in their rooms, and force them to hang out around campus and socialize, and this would be good for them.
- ghaff 2y agoMy experience from a long time ago was that dorm rooms were never really a place to hang out. My undergrad had rooms off a kitchen/suite area and people did hang out there. But rooms were mostly for sleeping (etc.), studying, reading, etc.
- jonfromsf 2y agoI would guess that now a lot of college kids stay locked in their rooms by themselves, swiping on their phones and playing video games.
- michaelt 2y agoYes, there are good reasons conventionally minded experts of all stripes vociferously objected to it, including architects.