Dorothy Baxter Alexander


General Information


Occupation: Architect, Photographer

Birth City: Montreal

Birth Country: Canada

Resident City: New York

Resident Country: United States

Notes: Photographic images at http://www.dorothyalexander.com

Archive/Repository: IAWA online inventory at: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/inventories/Alexander.html

Sources: IAWA, Special Collections Newman Library, Ms2001-056


Specialties


Subject: Photographs

Description: Specilties in urban landscapes, street portraits, portraits of artists and writers

Notes: Photographs have been exhibited in various galleries in New York


Jobs


Employer: Baker and Blake

City: New York

Notes: Alexander worked Baker & Blake as New York Associate of the Viennese Architect Hans Hollein on the Richard Feigen Gallery (Now Hanae Mori Couture)


Employer: Offices of Richard Meier and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer

City: New York


Employer: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (disbanded 1983)

Title: Staff Photographer for the Institute's magazine-Skyline


Employer: The Writer's Voice

Title: House Photographer

Notes: Alexander worked simultaneously with the Academy of American Poets


Employer: The Academy of American of Poets

Title: House Photographer

Notes: Alexander worked simultaneously with the Writer's Voice


Employer: West SIde Spirit and Toronto Globe & Mail

Title: Freelance Photographer


Employer: Small architectural practice maintained by Alexander

Title: Architect

Notes: Jobs have included: commercial remodelling for the Arriflex Corporation, Lowel-Light Manufacturing, Panavision and the Jack Tilton Gallery, among other clients.


Employer: American Institute of Architects

Title: Staff photographer for Oculus, the magazine of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

City: New York


Employer: The American Academy of Arts & Letters

Title: Photographer


Employer: Wurster Bernardi & Emmons

City: San Francisco


Employer: D.B. Alexander, Architect

Title: Architect

City: San Francisco

Notes: After working andd training in the offices of Wurster and Bernardi, ALexander opened her own firm, D.B. Alexander Architect. Projects included: 2 apartment buildings for Sinsheimer Development in San Luis Obispo; Duplexes for Views Land Co., in Sausalito; and houses and residential remodeling in San Francisco.


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


No awards on record


Exhibitions


Title: Serial Images

Description: Abstract photographs

Country: delete

Notes: First exhibited in 1973 and since some of the Serial Images along with her portraits are collections at the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris and in the National Portrait Gallery


Notable Projects


No projects on record


Education


Institution: McGill University School of Architecture


Institution: Episcopal Preparatory School


Institution: Sorbonne


Licensing


License: Licensed Architect

Organization: State of California


Professional Affiliations


No affiliations on record


Publications By


Title: The Power of Suggestion Ambiguities Abound in Hollein's Work

Publication: Interiors

Volume: 136

Issue: 7

Page: 70-73

Notes: February 1977


Publications About


No publications about on record