PHOTOGRAPHY

CONSTRUCTED VISIONS

CHRISTOPHER JAMES ALEXANDER’S CONSTRUCTED VISIONS SERIES HIGHLIGHTS THE INTRIGUING VISUAL CONNECTIONS THAT HE DISCOVERS DURING HIS EXPLORATIONS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. HIS PHOTOGRAPHS FEATURE EXTRAORDINARY SITES IN:

  • ATHENS

  • BARCELONA

  • CABAZON

  • CHICAGO

  • KNOSSOS

  • LAS VEGAS

  • LONDON

  • LOS ANGELES

  • MONTREAL

  • NASHVILLE

  • PHILADELPHIA

  • NEW HAVEN

  • NEW YORK CITY

  • NEW WINDSOR

  • PARIS

  • PASADENA

  • PHOENIX

  • ROME

  • TOKYO

  • WASHINGTON, DC

Constructed Visions TITLES

 

X + O

On a Blue Ceiling | Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia
1981 | 1928
Sol LeWitt | Julian Abele

Smithsonian Castle
Washington, DC
1855
James Renwick Jr.


Profiles

Palace of Knossos
Heraklion, Crete
1900-1490 BC | 1920s
Unknown | Sir Arthur Evans | Piet de Jong

Casa Mila | La Pedrera
Barcelona
1912
Antoni Gaudí


Bold Plumes

Asahi Beer Hall
Tokyo
1989
Phillipe Starck

Hahn/Cock | National Gallery of Art East Building
Washington, DC
2013 | 1978
Katharina Fritsch | I. M. Pei


Enduring Radiance

Pantheon
Rome
114-128
Trajan | Hadrian

Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago
1897
Shepley Rutan and Coolidge | Jacob Adolphus Holzer | Louis Comfort Tiffany

 

Swiss Cheese Bubble Wrap

Mikimoto Ginza2
Tokyo
2005
Toyo Ito & Associates

Prada Aoyama
Tokyo
2003
Herzog & de Meuron


Diamond in the Rough

Barcelona Pavilion
Barcelona
1929
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Lilly Reich

Bradbury Building Basement
Los Angeles
1893
Sumner P. Hunt | George H. Wyman


Lunar Skies

Cloud Gate | The Bean
Chicago
2006
Anish Kapoor

Cinerama Dome
Los Angeles
1963
Pierre Cabrol | Welton Becket & Associates


Playful Arcs

H Wall Sign | Binion’s Horseshoe Casino | The Neon Museum
Las Vegas
1951
Young Electric Sign Company

London Eye
London
2000
Marks Barfield Architects


Fragile Support

Propylaea of the Acropolis
Athens
432 BC
Mnesicles

Palau de la Música Catalana
Barcelona
1908
Lluís Domènech i Montaner


Transcendence

Las Arenas de Barcelona
Barcelona
1900 | 2011
August Font i Carreras | Richard Rogers + Partners

La Sagrada Família
Barcelona
1882 - present
Alonso y Balaguer | Antoni Gaudí


Whimsical Attractions

Five Swords
Cornwall, New York
1976
Alexander Calder

Dinny the Dinosaur
Cabazon, California
1975
Claude Bell


Eye See You

Mur d’ulls | Hotel Ohla
Barcelona
2011
Frederic Amat | Alonso Balaguer

Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium | Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
1964
Frank Lloyd Wright | William Wesley Peters


Crystalline Connections

Montreal Biosphère
Montreal
1967
Buckminster Fuller

Louvre Pyramid
Paris
1989
I. M. Pei


Before & After

Parthenon
Athens
432 BC
Iktinos | Callicrates

Parthenon
Nashville, Tennessee
1897 | 1931
William Crawford Smith


X-Factor

Wadsworth Chapel | Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Campus
Los Angeles
1900
J. Burton Lee

Pavilion for Japanese Art | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles
1988
Bruce Goff | Bart Prince


Cosmos

Barcelona Cathedral
Barcelona
1298-1913
Jaume Fabre | Bernat Roca | Arnau Bagués | Bartomeu Gual | Mestre Carlí | Josep Oriol Mestres

Palau de la Música Catalana
Barcelona
1908
Lluís Domènech i Montaner


Cornered

Beinecke Library
New Haven
1963
Gordon Bunshaft | Skidmore Owings and Merrill

45 East 66th Street
New York City
1908
Harde and Short


Tanked

Phoenix Cotton Mill | Marathon Motor Works
Nashville, Tennessee
1881 | 1910

Paramount Studios
Los Angeles
1926


Fabergé XL

Pasadena City Hall
Pasadena
1927
Bakewell and Brown

Casa Vicens
Barcelona
1885
Antoni Gaudí


Urban Exclamation Points

Bendix Building
Los Angeles
1929
William Douglas Lee | Florence Casler

Tokyo Skytree
Tokyo
2012
Nikken Sekkei


Filtered Glow

Barnes Foundation
Philadelphia
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

World Trade Center Transportation Hub
New York City
2016
Santiago Calatrava


Water & Ice

Pacific Design Center
West Hollywood, California
1975
César Pelli | Victor Gruen Associates

Joan Miró Foundation
Barcelona
1975
Josep Lluís Sert