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Gottfried Böhm in 2015
Born	January 23, 1920 (1920-01-23) (age 100) Offenbach, Hesse, Weimar Republic
Occupation	Architect

Gottfried Böhm (born January 23, 1920) is a German architect. In 1986, he became the first German architect to be honored with a Pritzker Prize.

Böhm turned 100 in January 2020.

Famous buildings

St. Columba Church, in Cologne, Germany (1947-1950)
Pilgrimage Church, in Neviges, Germany (1968-1972)
Christi Auferstehung (Church of Resurrection), in Cologne (1968-1970)
Bensburg Town Hall, Germany (1964-1969)

Pritzker Prize winners

Philip Johnson (1979) • Luis Barragán (1980) • James Stirling (1981) • Kevin Roche (1982) • I. M. Pei (1983) • Richard Meier (1984) • Hans Hollein (1985) • Gottfried Böhm (1986) • Kenzō Tange (1987) • Gordon Bunshaft and Oscar Niemeyer (1988) • Frank Gehry (1989) • Aldo Rossi (1990) • Robert Venturi (1991) • Álvaro Siza Vieira (1992) • Fumihiko Maki (1993) • Christian de Portzamparc (1994) • Tadao Ando (1995) • Rafael Moneo (1996) • Sverre Fehn (1997) • Renzo Piano (1998) • Norman Foster (1999) • Rem Koolhaas (2000) • Herzog & de Meuron (2001) • Glenn Murcutt (2002) • Jørn Utzon (2003) • Zaha Hadid (2004) • Thom Mayne (2005) • Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2006) • Richard Rogers (2007) • Jean Nouvel (2008) • Peter Zumthor (2009) • Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA (2010) • Eduardo Souto de Moura (2011) • Wang Shu (2012) • Toyo Ito (2013) • Shigeru Ban (2014) • Frei Otto (2015) • Alejandro Aravena (2016)

Images for kids

Böhm's 1968 Iglesia Youth Center Library, Cologne.
Bensberg City Hall, seen against old castle

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