Snyte is an architect who hires Roark for his modernist sensibility. He has five designers who design in different styles and vie for their designs to be picked, and Snyte adds a little bit of everyone’s designs to the winning design. His final designs lack integrity. Austen Heller comes to Snyte, through whom he meets and hires Roark after being dissatisfied with the work Snyte does for him. Snyte is upset with this and testifies against Roark at the Stoddard trial.
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John Erik Snyte Character Timeline in The Fountainhead
The timeline below shows where the character John Erik Snyte appears in The Fountainhead. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1: Chapter 9
John Erik Snyte looks at Roark’s sketches, finds them “Radical but remarkable,” and wants him to start work...
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Snyte is a prominent architect who has built in many styles. His strategy is to let...
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Part 1: Chapter 10
In another part of the city, John Erik Snyte tells his designers that they have a project that could potentially bring them a lot...
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Snyte takes his designers to Connecticut to show them Heller’s site—a rocky cliff over the sea....
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When Heller sees the drawing Snyte shows him, he says it is close to what he has in mind but that...
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Part 2: Chapter 12
...for three more days, with several witnesses—including Ralston Holcombe, Gordon L. Prescott and John Erik Snyte—testifying for the plaintiff, and Roark has no questions for any of them. Dominique is the...
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Part 2: Chapter 15
...Children” by a group of architects that Toohey chose: Keating, Gordon L. Prescott, John Erik Snyte, and Gus Webb. They use a mishmash of traditional styles to build it. The A.G.A....
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