The Großer BDA Preis is an architecture prize founded in Berlin in 1963. 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. The award is endowed with a certificate, a cash prize of €5,000 and a gold medal. The gold medal shows Daedalus and a maze based on the labyrinth of Knossos.

Oswald Mathias Ungers was a German architect and architectural theorist, known for his rationalist designs and the use of cubic forms. Among his notable projects are museums in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cologne.