Something that has always interested me was the possibility that Howard Roark from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was based off real life architect Frank Lloyd Wright. There are the obvious connections; Wright was a well known, arrogant architect who had an affair with a client’s wife. But then there are the more subtle ones, like the fact that he left college without a degree siting that that the “paper didn’t matter, it was the knowledge gained that will continue to be useful through my professional career” (New York Times, 1912). In the Fountainhead it is implied that Roark left college months before his graduation for the same reason. Wright started his school of architecture, as did Roark with his modern works. The Usonian home was possibly Wright’s most notable work, and it was a complex of low income housing that was very cheap to build, and also inexpensive to keep and maintain. In The Fountainhead Roark takes on an identical task, building low income housing. Others have had this same opinion, an entire article was even written about it in the magazine The New Individualist. I think this parallel is very interesting and could serve for an excellent senior paper