Myron Goldfinger, architect of monumental modernist houses throughout the Northeast, died last month at age 90. According to the family in a New York Times announcement, the cause of death was liver cancer.

Born and raised in Atlantic City, Goldfinger studied architecture under Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1955, while in the U.S. Army, he designed cabinetry for the Pentagon building in Virginia. Goldfinger then worked for noted landscape architect Karl Linn, followed by stints at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and at the office of Philip Johnson, where he contributed to the designs of ticket booths for the 1964 New York World’s Fair and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.