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.