Background
Gidoni was born Elsa Mandelstamm in Riga, Latvia.
Gidoni was born Elsa Mandelstamm in Riga, Latvia.
She studied architecture at the Technical University in Berlin and then operated her own interior design firm from 1929 to 1933.
Her family is of German-Jewish heritage. In 1933, after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Gidoni left Berlin and settled in Tel Aviv. In 1938, she moved to New York, where she worked as an interior designer for Heimer & Wagner before eventually finding work as a project designer at the architectural firm of Kahn & Jacobs.
In 1960, she was one of 260 women in the American Institute of Architects and only one of 12 working in New New York
In April 1978, she died at the age of 77 at her home in Washington, District of Columbia.
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She became a member of the American Institute of Architects (American Institute of Architects) in 1943.
