WIA Outing to US Premiere of ADA: My Mother the Architect

Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee on the closing night of NYC’s Architecture & Design Film Festival for a special outing to see the US Premiere of ADA – MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT! Directed by Yael Melamede, this deeply moving film focuses on the life and work of her mother, architect Ada Karmi-Melamede.

Following in the footsteps of her father and brother, Ada’s work gave physical form to some of Israel’s highest democratic ideals. She co-designed the renowned Supreme Court of Israel with her brother Rami and has been responsible for notable structures including university buildings, Teva and SodaStream’s factories, and many other public and private buildings. The feature documentary film ADA profiles a woman deeply tested by the realities of career and motherhood in the 1970s and 80s, a unique mother-daughter bond, and a fragile nation she no longer recognizes as the country she and her family helped shape. Award-winning filmmaker Yael Melamede, whose films have won an Oscar and Emmy amongst others, and Ada Karmi-Melamede will engage in Q&A after the screening.

*WIA Discount Code: WIA

Speakers:
Yael Melamede, Founder, SALTY Features
Ada Karmi-Melamede, Founding Partner, Ada Karmi-Melamede & Partners Architects

About the Speakers:
Yael Melamede is the co-founder of SALTY Features, an award-winning independent production company based in New York City whose goal is to create media that is thought-provoking, vital, and enhances the world. Melamede’s documentary credits include Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely (2023 – Emmy Award Nominee 2024), Pay or Die (2023), 1341 Frames of Love and War (2022), the Jigsaw Productions/Amblin Entertainment six-part series Why We Hate (2019), (Dis)honesty-The Truth About Lies (2015), When I Walk (News & Documentary Emmy Award Winner 2015), Desert Runners (2015), Inocente (Academy Award Winner, Best Doc Short, 2013), and My Architect (Academy Award Nominee, 2004). Yael was an architect before becoming a filmmaker and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Ada Karmi Melamede is an award-winning architect whose work spans industrial, public and civic buildings as well as private homes—including the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem; the IDC building at Reichman University in Herzliya; the Open University campus in Raanana; Beit Haliba and the Visitor Center at the Western Wall in Jerusalem; and Soda Stream’s industrial center in the Negev, to name just a few. Karmi Melamede taught at Columbia University for over a decade and was a visiting critic at Yale, Penn, M.I.T., and the A.A. School of Architecture in London, amongst others. Eight books have been written about her work and she is the recipient of Hadassa’s Woman of Distinction Award, the Rechter Prize and the Israel Prize in Architecture.