Louis Pounders is an American architect in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a Fellow ( FAIA) at the American Institute of Architects. He has worked with Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects. [1] [2] Pounders graduated from Rhodes College and received a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Pounders chaired the National AIA Committee on Design in 2009, the only Tennessee architect to have held the position. [1] [3] He co-authored A Survey of Modern Public Buildings in Memphis, Tennessee from 1940 to 1980. [1] He designed his own home in 1996. [4]