WMF Awards First World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize to Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has awarded its first World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize to Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, headed by partners Winfried Brenne and Franz Jaschke, for its restoration of the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, Germany (1930). Designed by Hannes Meyer, second director of the Bauhaus, and Hans Wittwer of the Bauhaus architecture department, the ADGB School is a seminal Modern building whose survival was unknown to Western architectural historians for decades. The Modernism Prize will be presented to the architects by Bonnie Burnham, WMF President; Andrew Cogan, CEO, Knoll, Inc.; and Barry Bergdoll, chairman of the jury and The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), at a dinner on Thursday, July 10, in New York City.