CHICAGO — “There’s no place for originality in architecture! Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past!” Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The ...

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Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...

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The film “The Brutalist” continued to make headlines this week with actor Adrien Brody winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film is about a Hungarian architect escaping World War ll and ...

CHICAGO — “There’s no place for originality in architecture! Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past!” Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The ...