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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() No one cares that Roark's buildings are actually pleasant to live in no, people don't want to live in houses, they want big flashy facades with lavish ballrooms so they can entertain their friends and impress them.Īnd so begins architecture as a metaphor for the content of people's selves. The Architectural establishment all damn Roark for being insufficiently humble enough to "realize" that no one will ever approach the glories of the past. Howard Roark, The Hero of the story, is an architect whose style tends toward being "modernistic." Problem is, everyone else where he lives likes to recycle old styles, so Howard is more of an acquired taste in the art world, where only a few folks (who become his True Companions, more or less) appreciate him. ![]() It was made into a 1949 film starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, with Rand herself writing the screenplay. The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. Dominique Francon ( Patricia Neal) and Howard Roark ( Gary Cooper) in the film ![]()
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