Ram Karmi, born in Jerusalem in 1931, was the son of architect Dov Karmi. Karmi studied at the AA in London and was later the chief architect of the Ministry of Construction. Karmi received twice The Rechter Award, Twice The Rokach Award and once the Israeli Award. He was a professor at the Ariel University’s school of architecture and in the Technion, and a visiting professor in universities in the United States and Germany. Amongst Karmi’s works are the supreme court in Jerusalem (planned with his sister, Ada Karmi Melamed), the master plan for the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus and the highly controversial central bus station in Tel Aviv. Karmi died in 2013.