Dov Karmi

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Dov Karmi (* 1905 in Odessa ; † May 14, 1962 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli architect.

Life

Karmi was born in 1905 as the son of Hannah and Sholom Weingarten in what is now Ukraine , which was then part of the Russian Empire . In 1921 he emigrated with his family to the British Mandate Palestine . He began studying painting at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem , but soon became enthusiastic about architecture and began studying architecture in Belgium at the University of Ghent .

In 1929 Karmi returned to Palestine, settled in Jerusalem, and married. In 1932, Karmi founded his own architectural office in Tel Aviv. Together with other young architects, including Ze'ev Rechter and Arieh Sharon , they founded their own group, which was heavily inspired by Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus and which determined the country's architecture in the years after the founding of Israel. Karmi's first major success was winning a competition to expand the cultural center in Tel Aviv. He had submitted the draft together with Ze'ev Rechter.

From the mid-1950s he often worked with his son Ram Karmi - a well-known representative of brutalism - who had joined his father's architecture office after completing his studies. Karmi is also the father of the architect Ada Karmi-Melamede .

Awards

In 1957, Karmi was the first architect to receive the Israel Prize .

Works

  • 1935: Zharsky residential building, 9 Gordon Street, Tel Aviv
  • 1936/1937 Beit Liebling , Rechov Idelson 29, Tel Aviv
  • 1946: Expansion of the Tel Aviv cultural center (together with Ze'ev Rechter)
  • 1948: Apartment buildings on Huberman Street, Tel Aviv
  • 1949: Office building for the Histadrut , 91-93 Arlozoroff Street, Tel Aviv
  • 1953: Expansion of the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium , Tel Aviv
  • 1950s: Zim Building , Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv
  • 1950s: Solel Boneh Arcade (also Tamar Passage and Allenby Arcade ), 111 Allenby Street, Tel Aviv (with Arieh Sharon)
  • 1955: Ayala Zacks residential building, 13 Ben Gurion Avenue, Tel Aviv
  • 1960: Revision of the design of the Knesset building by Ossip Klarwein
  • 1956–1962: El Al office building, Ben Yehuda Street, Tel Aviv (with Ram Karmi)

Without dating

Karma also built the following other buildings:

1964 view southwards over construction sites on the Givʿat Ram campus to Karmi's Sherman building with the attached Wise Auditorium in front of further new buildings of the Hebrew University
  • Writers' House , Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv
  • Nachmani Hall , Tel Aviv
  • Cameri Theater (now the Beit Lessin Theater ), Tel Aviv
  • LOCATION Singalovski High School, Tel Aviv
  • Rabbinical Court, David Hamelekh Boulevard, Tel Aviv
  • Hod Shopping Center , Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv
  • Office building, Ramat Aviv , Tel Aviv
  • Residential building, 1 Rosenbaum Street, Tel Aviv
  • Elgaziz House , 5 Zlocisty Street, Tel Aviv
  • Apartment buildings, Be'eri Street, Tel Aviv
  • Karmi House , 19 Levy Yitzhak Street, Tel Aviv
  • Sherman Building for Administration and Wise Auditorium, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givʿat Ram Campus
  • Research building, Technion , Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Exhibitions

literature

  • Dov Karmi, Architect-Engineer: Public Domestica . Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Everyone has his own Karmi , Haaretz, November 5, 2010
  2. ^ Awarded winners in 1957. In: Website of the Israel Prize. Retrieved July 23, 2013 (Hebrew).
  3. ^ The Knesset Building , Knesset website
  4. ↑ Simon Goldhill: Jerusalem: City of Longing . 2008, p. 322ff
  5. ^ A living legacy , Haaretz, November 5, 2010
  6. ^ Exhibition: Dov Karmi, Architect-Engineer: Public Domestica , Tel Aviv Museum of Art
personal data
SURNAME Karmi, Dov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1962
Place of death Tel Aviv