Career
Bodon"s father, K. Bodon, was a Hungarian interior architect. As a young man Alexander was first taught the trade of building furniture, and in 1924 began studying in Budapest. He moved to the Netherlands in 1929 to continue his studies, working with, among others, the architect January Wils.
He later worked for architects January Buijs and Lürsen, and for the agencies of Ben Merkelbach and Charles Karsten.
He received his first assignment in 1932, for the Schroder en Dupont bookstore on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. From 1935 to 1940 he led the short-lived Nieuwe Kunstschool (1934-1941), a school for the arts whose students included Otto Treumann, Benno Premsela, and Violette Cornelius.
Bodon taught at the school, and later served as its director He is best known as the architect of the Amsterdam Radiotelevisione Italiana (1951).
Other notable works include the Apollo Hotel in Amsterdam (1961).