Yesterday was the anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth. I thought I’d follow up with a movie clip, from Rand’s Fountainhead. Ayn Rand often denied that the Fountainhead‘s architect Howard Roark was based on Frank Lloyd Wright. (She did, however, commission a home from FLW, one that was never built.)
Still, the real and fictional architects were both individualists, and advocated a modern design, and that’s likely much of the basis for the comparison.
Here, Roark refuses to compromise his design, in a clip from the 1949 film. Enjoy.