![]() In fact, the Fountainhead remains the perfect representation of everything that’s wrong with the profession.Ĭonsider the plot. The late Lebbeus Woods wrote that the story “has had an immense impact on the public perception of architects and architecture, and also on architects themselves, for better and for worse.” I’d say worse. Since then, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, her “hymn in praise of the individual” ( New York Times), has made legions of young people want to become architects. In the movie version a few years later, Gary Cooper played Howard Roark, the character famously modeled after Frank Lloyd Wright. It came out in 1943, exactly 70 years ago this summer. In his recent article " The Fountainhead All Over Again," for Metropolis Magazine, he details why it's such a problem, going so far as to accuse Ayn Rand's dictatorial protagonist of committing architectural terrorism. And, according to Lance Hosey, Chief Sustainability Officer at RTKL, that couldn't be more damaging. ![]() ![]() Howard Roark, the fictional architect envisioned by Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead, has possibly done more for the profession in the past century than any real architect at all - inspiring hundreds to enter architecture and greatly shaping the public's perception. ![]()
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