The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Neviges in North Rhine-Westphalia is Gottfried Böhm's most famous work. People have mocked the church, calling it the "Bensberg Acropolis" and "Monkey Rock". Now the first German architect to have won the Pritzker Prize celebrates his 100th birthday.

Gottfried Böhm in 2015
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Born | January 23, 1920 (age 100)
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Occupation | Architect |
Awards | Pritzker Prize |
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Buildings | Neviges Pilgrimage Church, Velbert Bensberg City Hall |

Böhm's 1968 Iglesia Youth Center Library,
Cologne.

Böhm's pilgrimage church,
Velbert (then Neviges).
Gottfried Böhm (born January 23, 1920) is 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"; his most important building is the
Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom.
The most recent completed construction under Böhm's participation is the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam (2006). In 1986 he became the first German architect to be awarded the prestigious
Pritzker Prize.