Großer BDA Preis

The Großer BDA Preis (BDA Grand Award) is an architecture prize founded in Berlin in 1963.^[1] The Association of German Architects (BDA) honors architects, urban planners at home and abroad every three years for their outstanding achievements in architecture or urban development.^[2] The award is endowed with a certificate, a cash prize of €5,000 and a gold medal.^[3] The gold medal shows Daedalus and a maze based on the labyrinth of Knossos.^[2]

Award ceremony for the BDA Grand Award 2023: Inken Baller, Hinrich Baller and Susanne Wartzek, President of BDA (middle)

Recipients

• 1964: Hans Scharoun, Berlin
• 1966: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Chicago
• 1968: Egon Eiermann, Karlsruhe
• 1972: Günter Behnisch & Partner, Stuttgart
• 1973: Michael Eberl [de] & Partner, Munich
• 1975: Arbeitsausschuss des Evangelischen Kirchenbautages and Gottfried Böhm, Cologne
• 1978: Carlfried Mutschler [de] & Partner, Mannheim
• 1982: Frei Otto, Warmbronn
• 1987: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Cologne
• 1990: Karljosef Schattner [de], Eichstätt
• 1993: Thomas Herzog, Munich
• 1996: Heinz Bienefeld [de], Swisttal (postum)
• 1999: Hanns Adrian [de], Hanover
• 2005: Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg [de], Hamburg
• 2008: Joachim Schürmann [de] and Margot Schürmann [de], Cologne (postum)
• 2011: Volker Staab, Berlin
• 2014: Axel Schultes [de], Berlin^[4][5]
• 2017: Peter Zumthor, Haldenstein^[6][7]
• 2020: Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, Paris^[8][9][10]
• 2023: Inken Baller [de] and Hinrich Baller [de]^[11][12]