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Douglas Alexandra
Douglas Alexandra (6 February 1922 – 19 February 2000) was an Australian architect, whose works were an important contribution to modernist architecture in Melbourne, Australia.
==Biography==
Douglas Alexandra, was born Diomedes Alexandratos, in Shepparton, Victoria on 6 February 1922. He was the fourth and youngest child of Andreas Alexandratos (1872-1950) and Sophia (née Paizes) (1892-1974). His father migrated from Ithaca, Greece to Australia in 1910, where he established a fruit and vegetable shop in Melbourne. Andreas then went into partnership with his two brothers operating a café, the London Café, in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne before moving to Shepparton in 1914 and establishing a café there.〔〕
Alexandra graduated from Caulfield Grammar in 1940 and worked in drafting and land surveying offices until December 1942 when he joined the RAAF. His Lancaster bomber was shot down during a strategic bombing mission on 20 January 1944 over Neubrandenburg and he was incarcerated for one year in the German war camp, Stalag Luft III. Discharged from the RAAF in 1946, he anglicised his name and began a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne.
After graduating Alexandra opened his own firm and soon established himself as one of ‘Melbourne's first post-war modernist architects’. Alexandra designed a series of residences and two kindergartens, one in Beaumaris (1956) and one in Burwood (1957), as well as a regional art gallery and library complex in Hamilton, Victoria and the Town Hall in Shepparton, Victoria. During the 1950s Alexandra lectured in design at the University of Melbourne, alongside Raymond Berg, before the two went into practice together in 1962.〔Built Heritage Pty Ltd, Douglas Alexandra, Dictionary of Unsung Architects, www.builtheritage.com.au〕 Their firm, Berg and Alexandra, was responsible for designing several notable projects in regional Victoria and Melbourne, including the Nunawading Civic Centre and the Mildura Arts Centre. Berg retired in 1983 and Alexandra retired in 1996, selling the practice to Hudson and Wardrop. Alexandra died on 19 February 2000 at Cabrini Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria.
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