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Jan 29, 2015 · Gottfried Böhm is indisputably one of Germany's most significant architects. As the son of a recognized church builder, Böhm is now the patriarch of the family of designers. However, his sons ...
Jun 10, 2021 · Gottfried Böhm was born on Jan. 23, 1920, in the river city of Offenbach-am-Main, near Frankfurt, the youngest of three sons of Dominikus and Maria Böhm. His paternal grandfather was an ...
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Gottfried Böhm (born January 23, 1920, Offenbach-am-Main, Germany—died June 9, 2021, Cologne) German architect who combined traditional architectural styles with modern materials and sculptural forms to create Expressionist sculptures that were gracefully integrated into their landscapes. He was the recipient of the Pritzker Prize in 1986.
The work of Gottfried Böhm (1920–2021) ranges from the simple to the complex, using many different kinds of materials, with results that sometimes appear humble, sometimes monumental. He has been described in the sixties as an expressionist, and more recently as post-Bauhaus, but almost always he stands alone in departing from the ...
Hans Klumpp, writing in Bauen und Wohnen, said, “For Böhm, architecture and urban planning are inseparable.” Böhm has said, “I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.”
Jun 16, 2021 · The Hans Otto theatre, Potsdam, designed by Gottfried Böhm. It is a wild, theatrical confection, standing as a swirling stack of sculpted red plates. Photograph: Bildarchiv Monheim/Alamy
Gottfried Böhm ( pronounced [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈbøːm]; 23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021) was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne chapel "Madonna in the Rubble" (now integrated into Peter Zumthor 's ...
