Ada Karmi-Melamede

Karmi-Melamede was born on December 24, 1936, in Tel Aviv, in Mandate Palestine (now Israel). She studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture 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 at Columbia University (1969–1982), Yale University (1985, 1993), and the 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. New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that "the sharpness of the Mediterranean architectural tradition and the dignity of the law are here married with remarkable grace". She is the subject of the documentary film Ada: My Mother the Architect (2024). == 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 File:BeitAviChaiMay062023.jpg|Beit Avi Chai File:Adakarmiramathanadiv.jpg|Ramat HaNadiv == Awards ==

• In 2007, Karmi-Melamede was awarded the Israel Prize, for architecture, the second woman to have ever been awarded this prize. • 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) == Further reading ==