Ernő Goldfinger (November 11, 1902 - November 15, 1987) was a Hungarian born architect and designer of furniture, and a key member of the architectural Modern Movement after he had moved to the United Kingdom. His name was also the inspiration for the name of James Bond's opponent in the 1959 book Goldfinger (and the 1964 film of the same name). November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person licensed in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ... Furniture - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a sophisticated fictional character and British spy created by writer Ian Fleming. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This page is for the James Bond novel and film; see Goldfinger (band) for the band, Ernö Goldfinger for the architect. ...

Goldfinger was born in Budapest. In 1921 he moved to Paris after the collapse, following World War I, of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1923 he went to study at the École nationale supérieure des beaux arts, and in the following years got to know many other Paris based architects including Auguste Perret, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. In 1929, before finishing his course, Goldfinger established a partnership and worked on a number of interior designs and an extension to a holiday home at Le Touquet. Budapest (pronounced BOO-dah-pesht, IPA ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Missing image Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The fighting in World War I ended when an armistice took effect at 11:00 hours on November 11, 1918. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Categories: People stubs | 1874 births | 1954 deaths ... Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969) was an architect and designer. ... The Villa Savoye near Paris Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887–August 27, 1965) was a Swiss architect famous for what is now called the International style, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Theo van Doesburg. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Goldfinger and his new wife, Ursula Blackwell, moved to a flat in Highpoint I, England, in 1934. Before World War II, Goldfinger built only his own house (and two others) at 1-3 Willow Road in Hampstead, north London, and another at Broxted, Essex. His own house, 2 Willow Road, is now in the care of the National Trust. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... See Hampstead (disambiguation) for other places named Hampstead. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... This article is about the county of Essex in England. ... 2 Willow Road is a house in Hampstead, London that was designed by architect Ernö Goldfinger and built in 1938. ... The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is an organisation which works to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ...

After the War (appropriately, as a supporter of communism), Goldfinger was commissioned to build new offices for the Daily Worker newspaper and the headquarters of the British Communist Party. He also built Alexander Fleming House at Elephant and Castle in south-east London for the Ministry of Health. Communism is a term that can refer to one of several things: a social and economic system, an ideology which supports that system, or a political movement that wishes to implement that system. ... The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. ... Metro Central Heights Alexander Fleming House was a multi_storey office building designed by Hungarian_born architect Ernö Goldfinger and constructed in the early 1960s to be the headquarters of the Department of Health and Social Security. ... The Elephant and Castle, commonly shortened to the Elephant is a major road intersection in inner south London, and is also used as a name for the surrounding district. ... The Department of Health is a department of the British Government. ...

The Trellick Tower

As he was a neighbour in Willow Road, author Ian Fleming's dislike of the design of the house (and the demolition of the previous Victorian properties) prompted him to name the James Bond adversary and villain Auric Goldfinger after Ernő. Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when the book was published in 1959 (which prompted Fleming to threaten to rename the character 'Goldprick') but eventually decided not to sue; Fleming's publishers agreed to pay his costs and gave him six free copies of the book. Goldfinger was a serious man and sometimes sacked his assistants if they were inappropriately jocular. Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908–August 12, 1964) is the British author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a sophisticated fictional character and British spy created by writer Ian Fleming. ... This page is for the James Bond novel and film; see Goldfinger (band) for the band, Ernö Goldfinger for the architect. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In an attempt to solve the huge shortage of housing in the country following World War II, in which nearly one in three houses had been destroyed or damaged, the British Government began to see high-rise buildings as a solution, and Goldfinger rose to prominence in England as a designer of tower blocks. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ...

Among his most notable buildings of the period were Balfron Tower, 27-floor high (north of the Blackwall Tunnel, in Poplar in the east London Borough of Tower Hamlets), and the adjacent seven-storey Carradale House. These served as models for the design of the similar 31-floor Trellick Tower (in North Kensington; started 1968, completed 1972). Although Goldfinger enjoyed living in his own buildings, they were unpopular both amongst the public and many post-modernist architects. Towards the end of the 20th century Goldfinger's work has become a little more appreciated. Trellick Tower is now a grade II* listed building, and the few privately owned flats within are popular; Balfron Tower and Carradale House are also listed grade II*. Balfron Tower is a multi-story housing block in the Poplar district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... The Blackwall Tunnel is a road tunnel underneath the River Thames in London, linking the London Borough of Greenwich with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is the London borough to the east of the City of London, north of the River Thames in East London. ... Trellick Tower in west London Trellick Tower in London was designed by Brutalist architect Ernö Goldfinger in the 1960s. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, design, architecture, art, literature, religion, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...

References

• Ernő Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect by Nigel Warburton (Routledge, 2004)

See also

• List of architects
• UK topics