In Honor of Dani Karavan

Daniel (Dani) Karavan was born in Tel Aviv in 1930. His father Abraham was the chief landscape architect of Tel Aviv from the 1940s to the 1960s. Karavan’s many architectural innovations include wall reliefs in Israeli courts and research institutions, including the 1966 Jerusalem City of Peace wall relief in the Knesset assembly hall and the environmental sculptures comprising 35 wall reliefs & iron sculptures at the Court of Justice in Tel Aviv. 

Israel’s celebrated sculptor the late Dani Karavan at the Honorary Doctorate ceremony in 2009.

In 2009, the Technion awarded Karavan an honorary doctorate. The citation read: “In appreciation for your pioneering achievements and brilliance in the realm of art and environmental sculpture that has brought a heightened awareness of natural and built surroundings to the millions worldwide who have been privileged to view your artistic creations; in recognition of the enhancement of Israel’s prestige on the international scene generated by your art and the understanding, promoted by the many works in which Jewish and Israeli themes and the yearning for peace predominate; in acknowledgment of the importance of art to scientific and technological endeavors; and in gratitude for the hand of friendship you have always extended toward the Technion.”

At the graduation ceremony, Karavan said that: “Among all the scientists and engineers at the Technion, I feel a little unusual, even though I did my first work in cement and concrete and was greatly helped by the advice of Technion staff.”

May he rest in peace.

Monument to the Negev Brigade: one of the works by the late Dani Karavan.