<P> The novel has been adapted into other media several times . An illustrated version was syndicated in newspapers in 1945 . Warner Bros. produced a film version in 1949; Rand wrote the screenplay, and Gary Cooper played Roark . Critics panned the film, which did not recoup its budget; several directors and writers have considered developing a new film adaptation . In 2014, Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove created a stage adaptation, which has received mostly positive reviews . </P> <P> In the spring of 1922, Howard Roark is expelled from the architecture department of the Stanton Institute of Technology because he will not adhere to the school's preference for historical convention in building design . Roark goes to New York City and gets a job with Henry Cameron . Cameron was once a renowned architect, but now gets few commissions . In the meantime, Roark's popular, but vacuous, school roommate Peter Keating (whom Roark sometimes helped with projects) graduates with high honors . He too moves to New York, where he has been offered a position with the prestigious architecture firm, Francon & Heyer . Keating ingratiates himself with senior partner Guy Francon and works to remove rivals within his firm . Eventually, he is made a partner . Meanwhile, Roark and Cameron create inspired work, but struggle financially . </P> <P> After Cameron retires, Keating hires Roark, whom Francon soon fires for refusing to design a building in the classical style . Roark works briefly at another firm, then opens his own office but has trouble finding clients and closes it down . He gets a job in a granite quarry owned by Francon . There he meets Francon's daughter Dominique, a columnist for The New York Banner, while she is staying at her family's estate nearby . They are immediately attracted to each other, leading to a rough sexual encounter that Dominique later calls a rape . Shortly after, Roark is notified that a client is ready to start a new building, and he returns to New York . Dominique also returns to New York and learns Roark is an architect . She attacks his work in public, but visits him for secret sexual encounters . </P> <P> Ellsworth M. Toohey, who writes a popular architecture column in the Banner, is an outspoken socialist who shapes public opinion through his column and a circle of influential associates . Toohey sets out to destroy Roark through a smear campaign . He recommends Roark to Hopton Stoddard, a wealthy acquaintance who wants to build a Temple of the Human Spirit . Roark's unusual design includes a nude statue modeled on Dominique; Toohey convinces Stoddard to sue Roark for malpractice . Toohey and several architects (including Keating) testify at the trial that Roark is incompetent as an architect due to his rejection of historical styles . Dominique speaks in Roark's defense, but he loses the case . Dominique decides that since she cannot have the world she wants, in which men like Roark are recognized for their greatness, she will live entirely in the world she has, which shuns Roark and praises Keating . She marries Keating and turns herself over to him, doing and saying whatever he wants, such as persuading potential clients to hire him instead of Roark . </P>

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