After graduating from high school in 1980, Paul Böhm worked for two years in the Munich landscape architecture office of Gottfried Hansjakob and later studied architecture at the Technical Universities in Berlin and Vienna until 1990. In 1990 he was a colleague of Bernhard Strecker and Jürgen Eckhardt and in 1991 with Richard Meier in New York. He then worked as an employee in the Böhm office, which at the time was headed by his brothers Stephan and Peter Böhm next to their father. In 1997 he as well became partner of this office and then self-employed in 2001. Besides residential and various kinds of public buildings, Paul Boehm has acquired outstanding competence in buildings for worship. Many of his numerous assignments trace back to his success in competitions, such as the Central Mosque in Cologne for the Turkish-Islamic Union (DITIB) – one of Europe’s biggest mosques, which was completed in 2017.With his office based in Cologne, he is a professor at the Institute for Design and Building Typology at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Cologne and since 2012 a member of the board of the Haus der Architektur Köln. Paul Boehm’s work has bene shown in many exhibitions across Europe.