Ada Karmi-Melamede ( he, עדה כרמי-מלמד; born 1936) is a noted Israeli architect.

Biography

Karmi-Melamede was born on December 24, 1936, in Tel Aviv, in Mandate Palestine (now Israel). She studied at the

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in London from 1956 to 1959 and at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1961 to 1962, being awarded her degree in 1963. She has taught extensively in the United States, first at Columbia University (1969-1982) and then at Yale University (1985, 1993) and University of Pennsylvania (1991). She established Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects in 1985 in Tel Aviv. In 1986 she and her brother

Ram Karmi Ram Karmi ( he, רם כרמי; 1931 – 11 April 2013) was an Israeli architect. He was head of the Tel Aviv-based Ram Karmi Architects company, and is known for his Brutalist architecture, Brutalist style. Biography Ram Karmi was born in Jerusale ...

won an international competition to design the

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compound, which opened in 1992. ''The New York Times'' architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote of the design, "the sharpness of the Mediterranean architectural tradition and the dignity of the law are here married with remarkable grace."

Projects

Ramat Hanadiv Visiting Center, Ramat Hanadiv Memorial Gardens, 2008, Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel Life Sciences Building, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Supreme Court Building, Jerusalem, Israel, 1992. File:Model of Israel supreme court building.jpg, Model of Israel supreme court building File:Israel Supreme Court.jpg, aerial view, Israel Supreme Court File:Israel supreme courtDSCN1014.JPG, Viewing the model

Awards

* In 2007, Karmi-Melamede was awarded the

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, for architecture, the second woman to have ever been awarded this prize. Her father, Dov Karmi, had received the same prize in 1957, and her brother

in 2002. * Awarded the

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for Research in Art and Architecture (1985?) * Awarded grants from the United States National Endowment for the Arts ** New York City's Second Avenue (1975) ** transportation, mixed-use development, housing, and industry in Long Island City (1976–1977) ** architecture in Palestine under the British Mandate (1984)

References

Israeli architects Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Israel Prize in architecture recipients Israel Prize women recipients Sandberg Prize recipients Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Israeli Jews People from Tel Aviv 1936 births Living people Israeli women architects {{Israel-architect-stub

Biography

Projects

Awards

Further Reading

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