The majority of the work he does he probably has excess capacity for. Like his average performance at archecture is really high, with little effort, and lots of subconscious automatisation. I think like most work, a lot of it would be repetitive stuff. He would have mastered a huge amount of architectural skills and most of his work wouldn’t cost him nearly anything.
Idk though there are things I’m forgetting about Roark and I’m feeling like I’m projecting ideas of Elliot’s onto him. Like I’m thinking that Roark must’ve discovered a lot of CF stuff himself or something. But I think that’s not giving Elliot enough credit, or something. I haven’t quite formed the idea of what I mean, but I think there’s a problem there. I can’t remember if Roark got burnt out or not, or some equivalent, like almost working himself to death or something, it does ring a bell. I’d like to re-read AS and Fountainhead soon. It’s been like, 3 years since I read AS and 2 since The Fountainhead.
Roark refers to himself as feeling natural when working, and without tension. I don’t know just from looking at the quote but the other person in the scene (not sure who it is, Dominique? Turns out I don’t have a digital copy of The Fountainhead to search with…) is the one feeling tension, not Roark, and they’re saying that Roark is close to bursting to pieces, not Roark.