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Also we were shown the Saarinen residential college where the rooms don't have right angles and so the furniture doesn't fit right.  The tour guide explained this was done to promote creativity.  Ugh.

Prior to this, I had thought that Pitt's pie-shaped Litchfield Tower dorm rooms were the stupidest dorm rooms and it was probably because Pitt couldn't afford a better architect.

So, not sure if it's funny haha, but I learned from a campus tour that prestige and expense does not insulate students from whimsy, impracticality, etc.
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The Munger Graduate Residence hall at Umich has the hallways, kitchens, and lounges facing the windows, and the rooms (singles) are clustered in the interior and have no windows (and reportedly the ventilation is poor). Apparently the intent is to have students spend more time in common areas and connect and collaborate.

UC Santa Barbara had the sense to decline the offer from Munger to build a similar, and much larger, dorm there.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/nightmare-of-the-windowless-dorm-room[/quote]

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