Gottfried Böhm was 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". The chapel was completed in 1949 where a medieval church once stood before it was destroyed during World War II. Böhm's most influential and recognized building is the Maria, Königin des Friedens pilgrimage church in Neviges.
Hansjörg Göritz is a German-American architect, professor, author and designer associated with pure and minimalist architecture that emphasizes place, space, light and material. For his early works he was awarded one of the most prestigious architecture awards in Germany in 1996, the Development Award Baukunst to the Kunstpreis Berlin by the Academy of Arts, Berlin. In 2013 he was recognized as an Affiliated Fellow to the American Academy in Rome.
The NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne was founded by a resolution passed by the Cologne city council on December 13, 1979 and has become the largest regional memorial site in all of Germany for the victims of the Nazis. Since 1988, it has been housed in "EL-DE Haus," the EL-DE building, named for the initials of its owner, Catholic businessman Leopold Dahmen. This building was the headquarters of the Cologne Gestapo between December 1935 and March 1945. In the final months of the war, several hundred people, most of them foreign forced laborers, were murdered in the courtyard of the building. In a bit of historical irony, the EL-DE building remained largely untouched by the ravages of the war.
Carl Moritz was a German architect and real-estate entrepreneur. Based in Cologne, he built the Cologne opera house of 1902, and various banks, theatres and churches in Germany.
E2A Architects is an Architecture firm based in Zürich, Switzerland. The office is led by Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert who founded E2A Architects in 2001.
Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten is a German architecture firm based in Munich. Established in 1987, it has existed in its current form since 1993. In 1997, Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten received the German Architecture Award. Among many other buildings they had designed the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen, the Herz Jesu Church and the Haus der Gegenwart in Munich. According to the firm they currently employ 100 members of staff.
Vincenz Statz was a Neo-Gothic German architect, mainly active in the Rhineland.
Bieling Architekten is a German architecture firm located in Kassel, Hesse, with another office in Hamburg. Founded by Josef Bieling in 1955, the firm has projects throughout Germany. His son Thomas Bieling. a director since 2011, runs the company as a group of independent architects. Earlier names included Architekturbüro Josef Bieling, Bieling & Bieling Architekten, and Bieling & Bieling. They designed apartment buildings and offices, and became known for winning competitions for new quarters, such as Waidmarkt in Cologne and Wallhöfe in Hamburg.
Jörg Streli was an Austrian architect and academic teacher at the Innsbruck University. With two colleagues, as the firm Heinz & Mathoi & Streli, he built private homes in the alpine landscape of Tyrol, schools, offices and public buildings, among others. He was also president of the architecture section of the Ingenieur- und Architektenkammer für Tirol und Vorarlberg.
Günther Binding is a German art historian and retired professor of art history and urban conservation at the University of Cologne.
Willy Weyres was a German architect and accademic teacher. He was Kölner Dombaumeister from 1944 to 1972, diocesan master builder for the Archdiocese of Cologne for more than ten years, and full professor of architectural history and monument preservation at the RWTH Aachen from 1955 until his retirement in 1972. Under his leadership, the Cologne Cathedral was restored and further developed after the Second World War.
Karl Friedrich Heinrich Band was a German architect.
Volker Staab is a German architect.
The surroundings of Cologne Cathedral belong to the metropolitan city spaces. It has fundamentally changed its character since the Middle Ages. At that time, the torso of the cathedral was closely surrounded by houses and smaller churches. With the completion of the cathedral in 1880, it became more visible as a national monument, but the cathedral hill became an island surrounded by traffic. In 1970, the Domplatte connected the cathedral with the pedestrian zone without the need for steps. To this day, the design of the cathedral surroundings is considered a challenge for Cologne's urban planning.
The finials of Cologne Cathedral form the tops of the two towers at a height of 149 to 157 metres. A copy of this finial in original size, but made of concrete, has stood below the steps in front of the west façade of the cathedral since 1991.
The Taubenbrunnen is a fountain sculpture designed by Ewald Mataré and erected in 1953 in the Altstadt-Nord district of Cologne, situated directly in front of the west side of the Cologne Cathedral.
Hermann Stiller was a German architect and director of the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf.
Felix Gottfried Wehling was a German architect.
Max Creutz was a German art historian and curator of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum in Krefeld where he worked from 1922 until his death. In Cologne, he was instrumental in the first exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund in Cologne in 2014, Deutsche Werkbundausstellung. In Krefeld, he succeeded in acquisitions of modern art including works by Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, and Alexej von Jawlensky. He also made the house a substantial collection of art, crafts and design of the Bauhaus.
Ludwig Paffendorf was a German architect and craftman.
