India, Feb. 17 -- In the book, The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand offers a remarkable philosophical insight through an architectural perspective. She argues that a building must arise organically from its purpose and its setting. One cannot simply lift a design from one place and impose it upon another. The site, the climate, the materials, and the function together determine the form. Architecture, in this view, is not imitation but integrity.

The protagonist, Howard Roark, rejects borrowed styles. A structure, he insists, must belong to its location. It must feel as though it grows out of the ground on which it stands. Anything else becomes a facade-perhaps impressive, but ultimately hollow.

This architectural principle invites a broader phil...