Ernö Goldfinger Christopher Wilk Artwork of the Isokon Flats

Artwork of the Isokon Flats stairwell and facade

where many of the Flats' most famous residents rubbed shoulders with some of the most dangerous communist spies ever to operate in Britain

the estates with their prominent tower blocks

the early modern movement country house now open to the public by the National Trust

Ernö Goldfinger Christopher Wilk Artwork of the Isokon FlatsPaperback, 196 pages By Elain Harwood and Alan Powers Ern Goldfinger (1902 87) is one of the most celebrated modern architects to work in Britain in the twentieth century. Born in Hungary and trained in Paris, he was subject to influences that he synthesised in his work: the craft of producing fine concrete with classical refinement of composition from his teacher Auguste Perret, the drama of scale from the work of Le Corbusier, and from Adolf Loos, a