Gottfried Böhm (1920–2021) was the first German architect to receive the Pritzker Prize (1986) and the son of Dominikus Böhm, himself one of Germany's most important church architects. The catalogue holds 3 of his buildings — all Brutalist sacred or civic works.
Wallfahrt Neviges (1968) in Velbert is a pilgrimage church whose folded concrete roof rises like a crystalline mountain from the surrounding landscape — one of the most powerful sacred buildings of the 20th century. Bensberg City Hall (1969) threads a Brutalist civic building through the ruins of a medieval castle. The Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Cologne combines raw concrete with dramatic interior light. Böhm's churches treat concrete as a spiritual material — massive, rough, and capable of channelling light in ways that transform enclosed space.
