Ram Karmi
| Ram Karmi | |
|---|---|
| Native name | רם כרמי |
| Born | 1931 Jerusalem |
| Died | 11 April 2013 (aged 81–82) |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Technion, Haifa, and Architectural Association School of Architecture, London |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Employer | Ram Karmi Architects Company |
| Style | Brutalist |
| Home town | Tel Aviv |
| Spouse(s) | Rivka Karmi-Edry |
| Children | 6 |
Ram Karmi (Hebrew: רם כרמי; 1931 – 11 April 2013) was a leading Israeli architect. He was head of the Tel Aviv-based Ram Karmi Architects company, and is known for his Brutalist style.
Ram Karmi was born in Jerusalem. His father was architect Dov Karmi. Karmi grew up in Tel Aviv, served in the Israel Defense Forces in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He was one of the first soldiers to join the Nahal.
He studied architecture at the Technion, Haifa, and Architectural Association School of Architecture, London in 1951–56. His father, Dov Karmi, was also an architect and won the Israel Prize in 1957. His sister, the architect Ada Karmi-Melamede, was also awarded the Israel Prize for architecture, in 2007. He is married to Rivka Karmi-Edry with whom he has a son and two daughters. He also has two sons and a daughter from a previous marriage.
Early in his career Ram Karmi was employed in his father's office where he worked on plans for the Knesset along with the design competition winner Joseph Klarwein. Karmi planned the Negev Center, Beersheba, in 1960 and El Al building, Tel Aviv, in 1963. He continued his architectural work while lecturing at the Technion, designing the Amal School in Tel Aviv and the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station.
According to Karmi, after the 1967 Six-Day War, the changed atmosphere in Israeli society caused him to re-think his brutalist style. In 1974, Karmi voluntarily became the chief architect in the Housing and Construction Minister of Israel, a position he held until 1979, and worked to re-design the near-ubiquitous public housing projects in Israel. 1981 he finished the Hecht Synagogue in Jerusalem.
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