Paul Boehm

This article deals with the architect Paul Böhm. For the skeleton pilot see Paul Boehm , for the painter see Paul Böhm (painter) .

Paul Boehm 2009

Islamic cultural center and central mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, April 2015

St. Theodor, Cologne

Paul Böhm (* 1959 in Cologne ) is a German architect . He is the youngest of four sons of Gottfried Böhm and a grandson of Dominikus Böhm .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1980, Böhm worked for two years in the Munich landscape architecture firm Gottfried Hansjakob and then studied architecture at the technical universities in Berlin and Vienna until 1990. In 1990 he worked for Bernhard Strecker and Jürgen Eckhardt, and in 1991 at Richard Meier in New York. He then worked as an employee in the Böhm office, which at the time was managed by partners Stephan and Peter Böhm in addition to his father . In 1997 he became a partner. In 2001 he started his own business. Many of his orders are based on success in competitions. In 2006 he and his office won the competition announced by the Turkish-Islamic Union (DITIB) for the construction of the Central Mosque in Cologne .

He is professor at the Institute for Design-Construction-Building Theory and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the TH Köln . Since the end of 2012 he has been a board member at Haus der Architektur Cologne .

Buildings (selection)

• Islamic Cultural Center Central Mosque Cologne , 2006–2011
• Seminar building of the University of Cologne , 2009–2010
• Expansion of the Peek & Cloppenburg department store, Berlin, 2005–2008
• Peek & Cloppenburg department store, Wuppertal, 2005–2008
• Parish Church of St. Theodor in Cologne-Vingst , 1999–2001
• Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam (implementation planning) 1999–2006
• Employment office in Trier 1998–2002

Competitions (selection)

• Community Center St. Konrad Neuss, 1st Prize, 2012
• Seminar building of the University of Cologne , 1st prize, 2008
• Islamic Cultural Center Central Mosque Cologne, 1st Prize, 2006
• Urban development project, Nanchang, China, 1st prize, 2005
• Multiversakirche Wünsdorf, 2nd prize, 2005
• Parish Church of St. Theodor in Cologne-Vingst , 1st prize, 1999
• Deutsche Post, head office, Bonn , 1st prize, 1998

literature

• Ulrich Weisner (Ed.): Böhm: Fathers and Sons. Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle, Bielefeld 1994, Kerbet Verlag.
• Wolfgang Pehnt : Paul Böhm - Buildings and Projects / Buildings and Projects (German / English); Edition Axel Menges, Fellbach 2017; ISBN 978-3-936681-85-7 .
• Stefanie Lieb and Hartmut Junker: Sacred buildings by the Böhm family of architects. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7954-3347-5 .

documentary

• The Böhms - Architecture of a Family (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Böhm: St. Theodor and Central Mosque with biographical background information ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the internet presence of arcTourLIVE.de 

Web links

Commons : Paul Böhm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the architectural office Paul Böhm
• Joachim Frank: Interview with mosque builder Böhm; “This discussion is dangerous” , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KStA) Kultur of October 18, 2013
• Drafts by the Islamic Cultural Center on the Cologne Central Mosque website