Berlin Launch for Pentagram Papers 37

Pentagram’s Berlin office hosted a party last night to celebrate the launch of Forgotten Architects, Pentagram Papers 37. The guest of honor was architect Dr. Myra Warhaftig, whose compendium German Jewish Architects Before and After 1933 was the inspiration for Forgotten Architects, the latest in the series of self-published points of view known as the Pentagram Papers. Forgotten Architects surveys the work of German Jewish architects who disappeared during the years of the Third Reich and is accompanied by rarely seen photographs of their residential and commercial work.

Among the 100 guests who attended were Dr. Ulrich Klopsch, director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Dr. Lieselotte Kugler, director of the Museum für Kommunikation and Dr. Rainer Rother, director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen. After an introduction and welcome by Pentagram partner Justus Oehler and a speech by Berlin’s State Secretary of Culture, André Schmitz, the guests enjoyed food, drinks and a special exhibition the Pentagram Berlin team organized for the evening.

State Secretary of Culture, André Schmitz welcomes guests.

Justus Oehler, Dr.-Ing. Myra Warhaftig, André Schmitz, State Secretary of Culture.

Justus Oehler with Mr. and Mrs. Michael W., the owners of one of the houses featured in the book.

Guests browsing the exhibition.

Having a closer look.

Justus Oehler and Dr. Ulrich Klopsch, Director of the Jewish Museum.

Dr.-Ing. Myra Warhaftig and Markus Hawlik, photographer.

Dr. Rainer Rother, director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen and Jens Brüning, Deutschlandradio Kultur.

Helga Holtkamp, Cornelsen Verlag, Justus Oehler and Nikolaus Kuhnert, editor of archplus.