Ada Karmi-Melamede is a prominent Israeli architect. She graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in 1963. Karmi-Melamede’s work includes a variety of public and private projects, among them the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem and The Open University campus in Ra’anana. Her architectural work combines universal modern architectural principles with local and historical ones. In 2007, she received the Israel Prize in architecture, the second woman to have ever received this prize.