And so it's just that it was so novel, he's never seen that done, and he doesn't like it when it's different from what he's used to.

People obviously aren't complaining just because it's novel. Practically every large building is unique. Stop being retarded.

If you go on a Disney cruise ship and pay $20,000 a week for a fancy stateroom, it uses an artificial window instead of a real one.

He probably had to have a team of researchers to come up with this ridiculous one example. First: that room probably sucks and would not be good to live in for four years. Cruises are short. Second: you don't spend your time on cruises in your bedroom doing work, you spend it out of your room basically every waking moment, often not even on the ship. This comparison is trash.

When you look at them, the way they're curtained and so forth, you can't tell if they're artificial by looking at them, and they admit the exact spectrum of real sunlight.

Behind enough curtains, you can't actually tell the difference between an apple and a cat, but apples aren't cats.

You can turn a knob and change the sunlight to brighten it up or down. So if you're a romantic, you can tamp it down. If you want more bright light and so forth, you can turn the sunlight up just by twisting a knob. In many respects, these things are actually better than real windows.

"Romantic" students apparently have never heard of curtains on windows in real life.

Obviously, it would be better if every student could have a penthouse with perfect views in all four directions. But we don't do that because we can't get enough students to live conveniently close together.

"Penthouse": False dichotomy, retard. The choice isn't a 30,000 square foot penthouse or a shoebox with no windows. Literally every student housing not designed by you manages to find a better middle ground. And what's with "conveniently close"? Exactly at what time does a student say, "Well, if only there were 200 people living within 100 feet, that would somehow make my life better than if there were 100"? How many strangers live within 100 feet of this retard's bed?

This building has been criticized by McFadden in his resignation letter as a "social and psychological experiment with an unknown impact in the lives and personal developments" of these young people.

Well, he's just pulling that out of the air. Buildings actually exist with no windows at all in Michigan and people are living in them fine.

LOL, "Buildings actually exist"... yeah, other buildings you built, asshole. Don't leave that out, that you're the only person psychotic enough to do this, and act like it's an independent confirmation that you're sane.

The Munger Graduate Residence Hall in Michigan has no windows. It works fine. But once you put the artificial window in, it's a huge improvement.

So the last time you fucked up, but this time you're changing one variable and now it will totally be fine. That is the actual definition of what an "experiment" is, retard. Remember the thing you denied one line ago?

What the students hate most of all — as I know; we had eight children — what they really hate is sharing a bedroom with an unrelated stranger.

How many of your children didn't have a window? Do you think maybe the fact they weren't complaining about not having windows is because they actually had windows?

every single student gets his own private sleeping area. That's unheard of in undergraduate

Actually that's extremely normal for schools not located in overpriced shitholes almost nobody can afford to actually live in.

This windowless thing is just a bunch of crazy suppositions by an ignorant man.

You're not an architect, though, are you?

Well, no, but I've been building buildings all my life, and I've hired a lot of the very eminent architects for over 70 years.

No comment necessary.

The best buildings, in my opinion, are always created when an intelligent owner is working with an intelligent architect. And that's what's happened here. This is not just my design. This is a design with a lot of inputs from others.

I guarantee the "no windows" thing was 100% him, not any of the actual architects involved, and he made it clear to everyone else that if they had a problem with it they'd be fired.

It was your idea to have the rooms with these fake windows, right?

Yes, absolutely.

I can predict the future!