Architecture Lecture - Recycling Architecture:  Dreams and Inventions

Architect David Chisholm will present a lecture entitled "Recycling Architecture:  Dreams and Inventions" on Sunday, April 18, 2004, at 2 p.m. in the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Auditorium at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.  The lecture will deal with the adaptive re-use of industrial architecture and obsolete buildings and how these structures can be brought back to life through the introduction of new programmatic uses.  The American-born Chisholm, who has lived and worked in the Czech Republic since 1993, is a founding partner in the Prague-based firm CMC Architects.  His presentation will focus on six project located in the Czech capital illustrating how architecture has been used to revitalize moribund structures.  The lecture will also include Chisholm's current work on the Court Square Center project, an adaptive re-use of the former Rhodes-Jennings Building and the Lincoln American Life Tower located in downtown Memphis.  The 150,000 square foot project is currently under design.

Chisholm has taught in the Czech Republic at the University of Liberac and The Technical University of Prague.  His firm has collaborated with the well-known French architect Jean Nouvel on the adaptive re-use of the Holesovice Brewery, a 750,000 square foot project currently under construction in Prague.  Before  moving to Prague, Chisholm studied at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, and worked for several architectural firms in Southern California.

The lecture is presented by the Architecture Program at the University of Memphis and is supported by Academic Enrichment funds from the Department of Art.  The presentation is co-sponsored by CGI & Partners Court Square Center, LLC.

For more information, contact:

Jim Lutz
Architecture Program - The University of Memphis
901.229.1732

David Chisholm
CMC Architects
(011) +420.266.785.000

C. Yorke Lawson
Court Square Center, LLC
901.458.8080