Wessel de Jonge is an architect and a professor of Heritage & Design at TU Delft, the Netherlands. In 1988 he was the founding Secretary of DOCOMOMO International until 2002, and remained an active figure in the international network ever since. The portfolio of WDJArchitecten includes the conservation and adaptive reuse of the Amsterdam Orphanage (A. van Eyck, 1960), the Netherlands’ Pavilion in Venice (G. Rietveld, 1954), and the ‘Zonnestraal’ Sanatorium in Hilversum of 1928 (with Bierman Henket Architects). He has been the co-ordinating architect for the conversion of the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam (1928-31), and a partner in the re-design teams for the Cité Modèle in Brussels (1958) and the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki (1938). Awards include the Knoll / Modernism Prize 2010 and the EU ‘Europa Nostra’ Grand Prix 2008 for the Van Nelle Factory project, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.