In the more than 100 years of its existence, the Werkbund has provided significant impetus to industrial and design culture. It works to promote high-quality design in the human environment. With a discursive, interdisciplinary, and non-profit orientation, it pursues its goals through events, excursions, publications, exhibitions, and exemplary projects.

Thanks to its initiative, several modern institutions have been founded or their foundation has been promoted – without it being a professional association itself.

As an association, it is supported by designers, culturally and socially engaged individuals, self-employed persons, and companies who exemplify the goal of high-quality design of our environment with interdisciplinary topics – in society, architecture, landscape, housing, design, art, monument preservation, social affairs, and energy.

The German Werkbund works towards its goals at the European level.

Register of associations: VR 1863