Episode 41: Dora Gad
Dora Gad was born on August 1912 in Bukovina, at the time an Austrian province, but today Romania. She graduated in 1934 from the Vienna University of Technology with a diploma in engineering and architecture. Then she went back to Romania and worked with Duiliu Marcu. In March of 1936, she married Heinrich Goldberg and moved to Tel Aviv with him. Eventually, they changed their last names to Gad. In Tel Aviv she began working at the architecture firm of Oskar Kaufmann working on theater designs. Two years later she began her own firm and her husband joined her in 1942. n the early days of their firm they were designing private apartments and shops. Sources describe her style as light and modern, full of light, and incorporating local building materials, art, fabrics, carpets and woven work. Supporting local artists through her work. By the 1950s, Dora and Heinrich were famous interior designers in Israel. Notable projects include: The National Library in Jerusalem, Israel's embassies in Washington DC and Ankara; the offices of El-Al , Israel's national airline, in New York and London; the interior design of El-Al's airplanes, Zim flagship’s passenger ship “Shalom”. She kept on working until she passed away in 2003.
Caryatid: Ada Karmi-Melamede
Ada Karmi-Melamede was born on December 24, 1936, in Tel Aviv. She has degrees from the AA in London, Alma Mater of several of our ladies, and from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She’s been a professor at Columbia,Yale, and Penn. In 1986 she and her brother Ram Karmi won a competition to design the Supreme Court of Israel compound, completed in 1992. In 2007, Ada was awarded the Israel Prize, for architecture, just like Dora did.
References
Davidi, Sigal. “Dora Gad.” Jewish Women’s Archive, 23 June 2021, jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gad-dorah.
Mizrachi, Beverly. “Dora Gad.” NYPL Digital Collections, New York Public Library Digital Collections, 14 May 1987, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7bf8d980-035c-0131-35e0-58d385a7b928?reveal=view-text#/?uuid=77e813e0-035c-0131-db78-58d385a7b928.
Wikipedia contributors. “Ada Karmi-Melamede.” Wikipedia, 19 Oct. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Karmi-Melamede.
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