A Howard Roark building
Pastiching the International Style in The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead may not be a film ‘about’ modern architecture at all, but it certainly features a lot of modernist buildings in the form of plans, maquettes and painted mattes. The architectural oeuvre of Howard Roark, a pastiche of the International Style (and presumably the actual work of art director Edward Carrere and set decorator William Kuehl) is one part Frank Lloyd Wright to one part Le Corbusier to one part Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Here, in pictures (screen grabs from the DVD, not production stills: click on any image to see the larger version), is the architectural career of Howard Roark.
Early Career
Two of Roark's first four buildings, illustrated on the walls of his office
Two of Roark's first four buildings, illustrated on the walls of his office
One of Roark's first four buildings, illustrated on the walls of his office
A maquette of Roark's first proposed skyscraper
Suggested classical modifications to the maquette of Roark's first proposed skyscraper
Mid Career
A plan of the Enright House, an apartment block built for self-made millionaire Roger Enright
The Enright House under construction
The completed Enright House
The completed Enright House
The completed Enright House by night
Roark's maquette for a gas station
Roark's plan for a store
Roark's store, built
Roark's plan for farm buildings
The farm buildings, built
Roark's plan for a residential building
Roark's finished residential building
Roark's plan for an office block
The completed office block
Roark's plan for a factory
The completed factory
Late Career
Roark's presentation of a drawing for the Wynand residence
Roark's work in the guise of Peter Keating's: maquettes of Cortlandt Homes
A larger maquette of one of the Cortlandt Homes blocks
Cortlandt Homes as built: decorative
Cortlandt Homes as built: with balconies
Cortlandt Homes as built: classical friezes
Roark's triumph: the Wynand Building, New York's tallest skyscraper
Life Without Buildings has a round-up of recent blog posts on The Fountainhead from an architecural perspective.
