The revised model of the Knesset building by Karmi and Gillitt, 1961
The Plan Presented by Dov Karmi to the Implementation Committee in March 1960
Bill Gillitt spoke about the plan presented by Dov Karmi to the implementation Committee
in March 1960, which had angered Shlomo Gur and Yohanan Rathner.5 This plan, he explained,
had resulted from two weeks of non-stop work by Ram Karmi and himself. They had not used
any of the previous plans, but had been given the program prepared for the competition,
which had taken place in the years 1956-57. He clearly remembered that one of the
instructions was that the building should be surrounded by a colonnade. He denied that
either he or Ram Karmi were consciously influenced in the preparation of their program by
Gropius's American Embassy building in Athens,6 or any other building.
The first model of the Knesset building by Karmi and Gillitt, 1960
