The exhibition “Archetype: The Architecture of Ram Karmi,” on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s Eyal Ofer Pavilion, presents a self-fulfilling dystopia. When Karmi returned to Israel after his studies in London in the 1950s and joined his father Dov Karmi’s architecture firm, one of their joint projects was planning bomb shelters along the Ayalon corridor. Those were days of anxiety amid the nuclear arms race, which came with fears that a nuclear missile could destroy entire cities.
