marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then you masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?” Roark knows that every house or building is at a different location and should meet different needs. He doesn’t understand why others tell him to draw off of others for his work. Original thought is the only way we improve in anything. If no one had tried to think of other ways of communication then the telephone would never have been invented. We would still use the telegraph and life would be more difficult. Architecture is the same way. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder an

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