Research for an architect as a specialized citizen

Abstract

If he was not dead already, the pandemic has definitely killed Howard Roark. The time of this heroic character of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is over. Today architectural community has departed from an understanding of the architect as a godly figure who singularly blesses the world with his prophetic vision. Instead, now is the time of the architect as a specialized citizen—one who is an integral part of the social and natural ecosystem of the world.