“The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly.”
4,500 students in an 11-story block where most bedrooms have no windows. The donor wrote the plans himself and made following them exactly a condition of the money. The architect on the review committee quit rather than sign off. A university sold its housing design to whoever brought the biggest check.