Louis R. Pounders, FAIA

Education
Master of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1972          

Bachelor of Arts, Rhodes College, 1968


Professional Practice
Williamson Pounders Architects, PC, Memphis, TN; 1994-present
Nathan Evans Pounders & Taylor, Memphis, TN; 1972-93
I.M. Pei and Partners, New York, NY & Boston, MA; 1970-72


Affiliations
Registered Architect: Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, Alabama & Mississippi
American Institute of Architects 

AIA College of Fellows 

AIA Committee on Design 

Chairman, AIA Twenty-five Year Award Nominating Committee    

GSA National Register of Peer Professionals 

 
Selected Project Experience
Assisi Foundation Headquarters, Memphis, TN

Tunica River Park, Tunica, MS

Univ. of Tennessee-Memphis Parking Garage, Memphis, TN

Univ. of Memphis Brister Library Renovation, Memphis, TN

Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, Memphis, TN

Burke House, Pickwick Lake, TN

Oakhaven Elementary School, Memphis, TN

The Wonders Series (Memphis, TN):

         Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from The British Museum

         Ancestors of the Incas Exhibition

         Titanic: The Exhibition

         Imperial Tombs of China Exhibition

         Napoleon Exhibition

         Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans Exhibition

         Catherine The Great Exhibition

Sossaman & Associates Advertising, Memphis, TN

Mills Residence, Heber Springs, AR         

Lichterman Nature Center, Memphis, TN

Rivercrest Elementary School, Bartlett, TN

Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Marina Del Rey, CA

Pounders Residence, Memphis, TN

PriceWaterhouse Coopers Corporate Offices, Memphis, TN

Deloitte & Touche Corporate Offices, Memphis, TN

KWKSP Law Offices, Memphis, TN

Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis, TN

Rhea & Ivy Corporate Offices, Memphis, TN

Maybelline Corporate Headquarters, Memphis, TN

Marriott Hotel, Greenville, SC, Jacksonville, FL; Huntsville, AL

Naval Air Station - Memphis, Millington, TN; Multiple projects including:

Applied Instruction Building, Aviation Ordinance School, 

Enlisted Personnel Barracks
Crescent Center Office Building, Memphis, TN
Poplar Ridge Office Building, Memphis, TN
Sam Carey Lumber Company Offices, Memphis, TN
Scholl Corporate Headquarters, Memphis, TN
Snowden Junior High School, Renovation and Addition, Memphis, TN

Post Office, City of Germantown, Germantown, TN

Federal Express Flight Training Building, Memphis, TN

Teaching/Visiting Design Critic
The Center for Architecture, Memphis, TN

The University of Tennessee, School of Architecture
The University of Memphis

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

 

Awards Juries
National AIA Gold Medal/Architecture Firm Award Jury

National AIA SPP Small Project Awards

AIA Western Mountain Region

AIA Alabama

AIA Alaska

AIA Louisiana

AIA New Orleans

American Academy of Health

Frances Mah Travel Grant

Wood Design Award, University of Tennessee College of Architecture & Design

Bronze Medal, University of Tennessee College of Architecture & Design

Landmark Design Awards, Memphis Heritage

 

Community

Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni/ae Council

Harvard Design Magazine, Practitioners' Advisory Board    

Board of Trustees, Memphis College of Art

Rhodes College Red & Black Society                                            
Chickasaw Gardens Architectural Review Board

Eagle Scout