Brutalist churchgazing

RIP Gottfried Böhm, a sculptor in the rubble

Gottfried Böhm’s Pilgrimage Church in Neviges, photographed by seier+seier, under Creative Commons license

The German architect Gottfried Böhm died June 9 at the age of 101, leaving behind a gorgeous body of work rendered in tons upon tons of raw concrete.

He was not exclusively a “brutalist” — no one ever was — but some of his best-known works were monum…