Gottfried Böhm (1920–2021) was a German architect and sculptor, the son of the church architect Dominikus Böhm, known for highly sculptural buildings in concrete, steel and glass. In 1986 he became the first German architect to win the Pritzker Prize. His earlier projects were mostly in moulded concrete; later, as both materials advanced, he used more steel and glass. His first independent building was the Cologne chapel "Madonna in the Rubble", now part of Peter Zumthor's Kolumba museum.
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His most influential and best-known building is the Neviges Pilgrimage Church in Velbert (1968), dedicated to Mary, Queen of Peace. Bensberg Town Hall (1969) and the church of Christi Auferstehung in Cologne (1970) come from the same years of sculptural concrete, followed by the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn (1975). He was still at work in his eighties and nineties, with the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam (2006) and the Cologne Central Mosque, completed in 2018. Gottfried Böhm's buildings are studied for treating concrete as sculpture at the scale of a building.
Neviges Pilgrimage Church1968 · Velbert
Diözesanmuseum Paderborn1975 · Paderborn
Hans Otto Theater2006 · Potsdam
Bensberg Town Hall1969 · Bergisch Gladbach
Christi Auferstehung1970 · Cologne
Züblin-Haus1985 · Stuttgart