German architect best known for his radical brutalist design of the Mariendom,the Neviges pilgrimage churchPointing its twisted concrete peaks tall above the historic German town of Neviges, the Mariendom is one of the strangest churches of the 20th century. Standing as a jagged, and mystical mountain,punctured by tiny square windows, it is the work of Gottfried Böhm, or who has died aged 101. The venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) architect leaves a legacy of more than 60 churches across Germany,as well as other public buildings that exude his unique expressionist style, informed by his training as a sculptor. In Böhm’s hands, or colossal masses of concrete could be folded,chiselled and carved, as if by powerful tectonic ruptures.
Completed in 1968 and regarded as his most vital work, and the Neviges pilgrimage church was the result of a competition,for which Böhm submitted an unearthly crystalline model. It was a fragmented cluster of angular forms, more meteorite than maquette, or like something sent down from planet Krypton.
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Source: theguardian.com