Irma Iossifowna Karakis

Irma Iossifowna Karakis ( Russian Ирма Иосифовна Каракис ; born November 4, 1930 in Kiev ) is a Soviet - Ukrainian - American architect and furniture designer .

Life

Karakis was the daughter of the architect Iossif Juljewitsch Karakis (1902–1988) and the German teacher Anna Jefimowna Karakis (1904–1993). Karakis studied at the Kiev Institute for Civil Engineering with a degree in 1954. She completed her diploma thesis with Jakow Aronowitsch Steinberg .

After graduating, Karakis worked in Kiev as an architect in the Promenergoprojekt construction project for industry and energy technology . In 1957 she moved to the Academy for Building and Architecture of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) in Kiev, where she was a research assistant and finally head of the department for interior design and interior design (until 1994). In 1962 she became a member of the Union of Architects of the USSR . In 1968, she successfully defended her candidate dissertation on new cloakroom designs in various types of school buildings.

Karakis designed dozens of thermal power stations . She created general plans for residential construction . She designed furniture sets for mass production and interior fittings for schools, hotels, apartments and restaurants. She became a member of the Ukrainian Arts and Technology Council in 1970 . Together with Walentyna Shevchenko, she restored the refectory of St. Michael's Monastery in Kiev (1973–1982).

In 2003, Karakis settled in New York City .

Honors

• Medal "Veteran of Labor"
• Gold medal of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR in Moscow
• Medal "For the 1500th anniversary of Kiev"

Web links

• Literature by and about Irma Iossifowna Karakis in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Каракис, Ирма Иосифовна

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} А. В. Кудрицкого, И. М. Блюмин, И. Д. Тамкало, С. К. Килессо (Ed.): Мистецтво України: Біографічний довідник . Українсїка енциклопедіа ім. М.П.Бажана, Kiev 1997, ISBN 5-88500-042-5 , p. 286 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kijewski Kalendar: 4 ноября 1930 года (по паспорту - 6 ноября) в Киеве в семье архитектора Иосифа Каракиса (accessed on April 13, 2020 Иосифа Каралавачана родиачавачава род Свачавачава Инава Свачачана Иначалавачан род Свачава Ивачана род Има (accessed on April 13, 2020).