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“Freedom is good for design,” wrote a man who knows what it means to be unfree.
Adrian Bejan grew up in Romania under Nicolae Ceaușescu—a regime that believed it could plan a society as an engineer bolts together a machine. Every factory, farm, and loaf of bread was dictated from the center.
The plan was total. The plan was correct. The plan was, in Le Corbusier’s chilling phrase, “the despot.”
Bejan got out. A scholarship took him to MIT, where he trained as a mechanical engineer, the discipline of heat and motion and machines.
But he carried something…
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