The Fountainhead | Social Concerns
Rand's visualizations of society are radically different from the majority of those embodied in most popular fiction. Her Objectivist philosophy encourages nonconformity and the acceptance of no constraints over an individual's reason. Howard Roark, the brilliant architect hero of this work, accepts no precedents for his designs, and has no interest in what society wants from architecture. Rather than studying Greek or Renaissance designs, he leaves the school of architecture and strikes out on his own, designing his unorthodox buildings for those clients who have the worth to see the...
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