Gottfried Böhm is a German architect and sculptor. He is known for his sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm was born in 1920 in Offenbach, Hessen. After his graduation in 1947 he worked with his father Dominikus Böhm. He was most inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.
Son, grandson, husband, and father of architects, Gottfried Böhm has reason to recognize the nourishment that traditional ways and means provide in architecture, as in all the arts. In the course of a career of over forty years, he has taken care to see that the elements in his work which suggest the past also bear witness to his ready acceptance, whether in the design of churches, town halls, public housing, or office buildings, of the latest and best in our contemporary technology. His highly evocative handiwork combines much that we have inherited from our ancestors with much that we have but newly acquired—an uncanny and exhilarating marriage, to which the Pritzker Architecture Prize is happy to pay honor. – Pritzker Prize Jury citation 1986
Kolumba
1950, Coglogne, Germany
Iglesia Youth Centre Library
1968, Cologne, Germany
Pilgrimage Church – Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom
1968, Neviges, Germany
Bernsberg City Hall
1969, Bernsberg, Germany
Christi Auferstehung Church of Resurrection
1970, Cologne, Germany
Cologne Central Mosque with Paul Bohm
2017, Cologne, Germany
