Background
Karmi was born in 1905, the son of Hannah and Sholom Weingarten, in Zhvanets, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.
Karmi was born in 1905, the son of Hannah and Sholom Weingarten, in Zhvanets, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.
He initially studied art at the Bezalel School of Art and Craft, Jerusalem, but was attracted to architecture and went to Belgium to complete his studies in this field at Ghent University.
During his professional career he designed more than two hundred buildings, mostly in Tel Aviv. Karmi"s main style was modernist. He influenced a generation of Israeli architects.
Max-Liebling House, Tel Aviv, 1936 Culture Palace, Tel Aviv, 1957 (with Zeev Rechter and Yaakov Rechter).