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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This idea to replace windows with virtual windows came from Disney Cruise ships, Munger explained in the Architectural Record interview.

"We had a window shortage," he said. "So we just copied what Disney Cruises did. The way Disney does it, the window is really a television set. Those work beautifully on the ships."

"But I wanted to have a spectrum of sunlight, so with a curtain hanging over it you couldn't tell if it was artificial or real," he added.

"I figured out how to do that. Programming the lights to copy the sun was too expensive. So we will give the students knobs, and they can have whatever light they want. Real windows don't do that."

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