The Fountainhead - Wikipedia The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation
The Fountainhead (1949) - IMDb The Fountainhead: Directed by King Vidor With Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - Goodreads The Fountainhead tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect Thrown out of Stanton School of Architecture for his refusal to adhere to the standards of the past (the dean views Roark as a rebel who opposes all the rules of architecture and his society’s view of art that is representation of what has been revered in the past) and for
The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Individualism | Britannica The Fountainhead, novel by Ayn Rand, published in 1943 An exposition of the author’s anticommunist philosophy of “objectivism,” The Fountainhead tells of the struggle of genius architect Howard Roark—said to be based on Frank Lloyd Wright—as he confronts conformist mediocrity
About The Fountainhead - CliffsNotes Having grown up in the totalitarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union, holding an impassioned belief in political freedom and the rights of the individual, Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead as a tribute to the creative freethinker
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Lexicon The Fountainhead (1943) introduced the world to architect Howard Roark, an intransigent individualist A man whose arrogant pride in his work is fully earned, Roark is an innovator who battles against a tradition-worshipping society—refusing to compromise his standards in work and life
The Fountainhead Plot Summary | Book Analysis 'The Fountainhead' follows Howard Roark, an innovative architect whose modernist designs face constant opposition from a conformist society Despite setbacks and conflicts with figures like Peter Keating and Ellsworth Toohey, Roark remains committed to his principles