 Early in his career Ram Karmi was employed in his father's office where he worked on plans for the Knesset along with the design competition winner Joseph Klarwein.Karmi planned the Negev Center, Beersheba, in 1960 and El Al building, Tel Aviv, in 1963.He continued his architectural work while lecturing at the Technion, designing the Amal School in Tel Aviv and the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station.