Billionaire investor Charles Munger's design for a much-criticised student dormitory at the University of California was informed by Le Corbusier and will "last as long as the pyramids," he has claimed in an interview defending the project.
Munger defended his vision for a 1.68-million-square-foot (156,000-square-metre) building, which would house 94 per cent of its 4,500 students in windowless rooms, in an interview with American magazine Architectural Record.
The controversial scheme drew global attention earlier this week when architect Dennis McFadden stepped down from a University of California committee in protest at the design.
Munger eliminated "errors" made by Corbusier Speaking to the Architectural Record, 97-year-old Munger said that his design for the student housing block at University of California Santa Barbara was based on the iconic Unité d'Habitation modernist housing project in Marseille by modernist architect Le Corbusier.
He claimed that he improved Le Corbusier's design, which was "too narrow to make the spaces interesting".
"The whole thing didn't work worth shit," Munger told Architectural Record.
"I've fixed that," he said. "We took Corbusier's errors and the errors in university housing and eliminated them one by one."
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