Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept by Maiken Umbach & Mathew Humphrey

Author:Maiken Umbach & Mathew Humphrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Roark’s repeated ‘why?’ and the Dean’s inability to answer that question without invoking platitudes about self-evidence shows the Dean to be a follower rather than a leader. Completely embedded in notions of architectural tradition, the Dean cannot understand the inauthenticity of the architectural styles that he is defending. We see this when Roark offers to tell him what is ‘rotten’ about the Parthenon.‘“It’s the Parthenon!” said the Dean.

“Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!”

The ruler struck the glass over the picture.

“Look,” said Roark. “The famous flutings on the famous columns—what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood when columns were made of wood, only these aren’t, they’re 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 your 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?”’5

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