Dominikus Böhm

…assistant architect alongside his father, Dominikus Böhm, one of the most prominent architects of Roman Catholic churches in Europe. (Gottfried’s paternal grandfather was an architect as well.) After apprenticing at firms in Cologne and New York City in 1950–51, Gottfried became a partner at his father’s office. The two collaborated…

Simultaneously, in Dominikus Böhm’s and Heinz Bienefeld’s Church of Maria Königin (1953–54) in Cologne-Marienburg an entire sidewall of the church is conceived as a diaphanous veil of silvery gray stained glass that half reveals and half conceals the parklike grounds outside with equally dazzling effect. In Wallace…