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Ada Karmi-Melamede ( he, עדה כרמי-מלמד; born 1936) is a noted Israeli
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Ada Karmi-Melamede ( he, עדה כרמי-מלמד; born 1936) is a noted Israeli architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
.
Biography
Karmi-Melamede was born on December 24, 1936, inTel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
, in Mandate Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...
(now Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
).
She studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
from 1956 to 1959 and at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...
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 won an international competition to design the Supreme Court of Israel compound, which opened in 1992. ''The New York Times'' architecture critic Paul Goldberger
Paul Goldberger (born in 1950) is an American author, architecture critic and lecturer. He is known for his "Sky Line" column in ''The New Yorker''.
Biography
Shortly after starting as a reporter at ''The New York Times'' in 1972, he was assign ...
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
Zikhron Ya'akov ( he, זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, ''lit.'' "Jacob's Memorial"; often shortened to just ''Zikhron'') is a town in Israel, south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mounta ...
, Israel
Life Sciences Building, Ben-Gurion University
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...
, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Supreme Court Building, Jerusalem, Israel, 1992.Awards
* In 2007, Karmi-Melamede was awarded the Israel Prize, for architecture, the second woman to have ever been awarded this prize. Her father,Dov Karmi
Dov Karmi ( he, דב כרמי; 1905 – 14 May 1962) was a renowned architect of Mandate Palestine and Israel.
Biography
Dov Karmi was born in 1905, the son of Hannah and Sholom Weingarten, in Zhvanets, Russian Empire. In 1921 the Wein ...
, had received the same prize in 1957, and her brother Ram Karmi in 2002.
* Awarded the Sandberg Prize for Research in Art and Architecture (1985?)
* Awarded grants from the United States National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...
** 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)
Further Reading
Karmi Melamede, et al. ''Ada Karmi Melamede, Architect : Life Sciences Buildings, Ben Gurion University of the Negev''. Birkhauser, 2003. Schultz, Anne-Catrin, and Richard Bryant. ''Ram Karmi, Ada Karmi-Melamede : Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem''. Edition Axel Menges, 2010. Karmi-Melamede, Ada. “The Supreme Court Building, Israel.” ''Perspecta'' 26 (1990): 83–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/1567155. Karmi-Melamede, Ada. ''Ma(r)King Ground : Three Projects''. Frances Lincoln, 2013. Karmi-Melamede, Ada, et al. ''Architecture in Palestine during the British Mandate, 1917-1948''. Israel Museum, 2014. עדה כרמי-מלמד, et al. ''אבא שלי, דב כרמי: My Father, Dov Karmi''. Bavel, 2018.See also
* List of Israel Prize recipientsReferences
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