Ruth Melamede entered the Architectural Association as a Fourth Year student in 1953. She is recorded in the AA Student Register as being loosely affiliated with the AA Department of Tropical Architecture in 1954-1955, primarily for thesis advice as her Fifth Year design project was for a shopping centre in Israel. Following graduation, she worked for the London practice of McMorran and Whitby, before moving to Israel. Little is known of her subsequent career but a Ruth Melamede is recorded as founding the Department for Interior Design, New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem, in 1962, acting as Dean until 1965. Early design proposals for the Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, by an architect of Ruth’s name, survive in the archive of Moshe Safdie. 

Sources:

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll Book, 1924-1963, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Members List, 1961, 1969
• Melamede, R. ‘Housing for Integration’, Ariel, 12 (A Review of the Arts and Sciences in Israel, Jerusalem: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cultural Relations Department, 1965), pp. 39–46