The School of Architecture + Art continues lecture series with screening of My Mother, the Architect

Norwich University’s School of Architecture + Art continues its 2025-2026 lecture series on Architecture + Well Being with a screening of "My Mother, the Architect," co-hosted by Communication Design Media Arts.

The film will screen on Friday, Feb.13, from 1-2:45 p.m. in Mack Auditorium, followed by a conversation with the director, award-winning filmmaker Yael Melamede.

The event is free and open to the public. A live stream will also be available.
(1.5 LU’s pending)

The film debuted in New York City in May 2025 and offers an intimate, layered portrait of Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede, whose civic projects have shaped cultural and public life for decades. Directed by her daughter, the documentary explores architecture through the lenses of family, gender, authorship, ethics, and public responsibility, both deeply personal and profoundly professional. Yael Melamede is the co-founder of SALTY Features, an independent production company launched to tell stories that are thought-provoking, vital, and enhance the world.

Recent projects include "Children No More – Were and Are Gone" (directed by Hilla Medalia), currently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short; "Death & Taxes" (directed by Justin Schein), a personal and provocative look at America’s flawed tax system; "Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely," an Emmy-nominated film exploring free speech through the life of First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams; and "Pay or Die" (directed by Scott Ruderman and Rachael Dyer), a powerful examination of the devastating insulin crisis in the U.S.

This series is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, a philanthropic organization supporting cancer research, education, volunteerism and other charitable endeavors, backs the School of Architecture + Art Lecture Series. For more than 10 years, the Byrne Foundation and Norwich University have partnered to bring eminent national and international architects, designers, artists and writers to campus. Events are free and open to the public.

Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. Norwich is one of our nation's six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).