Ada Karmi-Melamede is a noted Israel

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i architect

Architect

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.

Biography

Karmi-Melamede was born on December 24, 1936 in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, in Mandate Palestine (now Israel

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).

She studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture

Architectural Association School of Architecture

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 in London

London

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 from 1956 to 1959 and at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1961 to 1962, being awarded her degree in 1963.

Awards

In 2007, Karmi-Melamede was awarded the Israel Prize

Israel Prize

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, for architecture. Her father, Dov Karmi

Dov Karmi

- Biography :Karmi was born in 1905 in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1921 he emigrated to British-ruled Palestine ....

, had received the same prize in 1957, and her brother Ram Karmi

Ram Karmi

Ram Karmi is a leading Israeli architect. He is head of the Tel Aviv-based Ram Karmi Architects company, and is known for his Brutalist style.-Biography:Ram Karmi was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in Tel Aviv...

 in 2002.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients