<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> 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>
where does dominique francon first see howard roark
where does dominique francon first see howard roark
granite quarry owned by Francon
granite quarry owned by Francon