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Ern Goldfinger was a Hungarianborn architect and designer of furniture. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1930s, and became a key member of the Modernist architectural movement. He is most prominently remembered for designing residential tower blocks, some of which are now listed buildings.
Goldfinger was born in Budapest to a Jewish family. The family business was forestry and sawmills, which led Goldfinger to consider a career in engineering until he became interested in architecture after reading Hermann Muthesiuss Das englische Haus, a description of English domestic architecture around the turn of the twentieth century. He continued to recommend the book for most of his life.
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