It is our pleasure
to invite you to the opening of the new season of Cinemarc, the cinema
series sponsored by the Department of Architecture at KIST.
This Wednesday 24th October, we will show you THE FOUNTAINHEAD.
Based on the 1943 eponymous novel by Ayn Rand, the 1949 film
adaptation of the Fountainhead’ charts the architectural trajectory of Howard
Roark. A talented and aspiring architect, Roark struggles to find commissions
for work, from clients that allow him artistic autonomy, whilst his less creative,
but more obedient, peers such as Peter Keating seem to follow the pack and
succeed. However the meaning of ‘success’ to Roark is grounded within his
inherent need for artistic freedom and not the quantity of work. Disenchanted
by trends of architecture ruling the profession, he abandons architectural
practice to work in a stone quarry. A series of understanding clients, however
pull back Roark from the brink of obscurity, yet the resilience of his artistic
ego arising from concepts of the ‘ownership’ of his designs, result in drastic
undertakings and explosive results.
'THE FOUNTAINHEAD' was shown as part of ARCHITECTURAL THEORY IV (ARC 3322) lecture
on Ethics taught in Semester 2 by Killian Doherty.
Please join us Wednesday
24th October at 5:00pm in FAED Classroom 2 for the projection.
We hope to find you all there.
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