TEAM

Vít Máslo is a founding partner of CMC ARCHITECTS, and has been a leading force behind its professional success for the past 19 years. Vít was educated at both the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Technical University, here in Prague, and participates in both City Planning and the academic architectural education. Vít has vast experience with international collaboration, including some of the world’s top artists and architects, which has been key to the many publications and media interest of CMC ARCHITECTS projects and designs.

With over 25 years of practice, Vít Máslo is licensed in the Czech Republic, and is also a member of the Czech Academy of Architects. Vít has been committed to CMC’s philanthropic activities, for many years, including special funds for impoverished children, sponsoring of art galleries, and giving of time and financial support to local universities.

David Richard Chisholm is one of the original founders of CMCARCHITECTS studio in Prague, Czech Republic. With thirty years of practice, David has led CMCA to winning prestigious awards and competitions, and to becoming one of the premier architectural firms in the Czech Republic. David’s constant search for originality, in a fractal approach to design, has created CMCA’s widely published, unique buildings over the past twenty years. With several world collaborations to his credit, including Henning Larsen from Copenhagen, Behnisch Architekten from Munich & Stuttgart, Ateliers Jean Nouvel from Paris, Gehry Partners from Los Angeles, MVRDV from Rotterdam, ARUP from the UK, and recently MIAS from Barcelona, David has elevated design and professionalism at CMCARCHITECTS to successfully work on an international level.

The experience David Richard Chisholm holds is from inventive and conceptual, to detail and construction of large office complexes, towers, train stations, airports, exhibition centers, residential communities, large public spaces, and landscapes of every scale. David Richard Chisholm was the lead designer and spear-headed the award-winning Prague International Airport Master Plan, the expansion of the Prague Congress Center, the Prague Market Urban Regeneration Master Plan, won both the prestigious Pasohlavky Spa Resort competition and the Nuselsky Brewery Urban Regeneration competition, invented the iconic vertical garden office complex BUTTERFLY KARLIN, and has won several awards for his Brownfield Adaptive Re-Use projects.

As only the seventh foreigner in the history of the Czech Republic, David Richard Chisholm, more than twenty years ago, was granted the highest-level licensure of architecture. David was also granted architectural and urban design licenses in Monte Negro and the United States (New York) and has been a member of both the Czech Academy of Architects and the Czech Green Building Council.

Educated in the United States, David studied Economics, Psychology, Art and Architecture, with a final diploma at the School of Environmental Design & Architecture, California Polytechnic, Pomona, in Los Angeles

Martina Chisholm is currently the Director of Projects at CMCA and has been one of the studio’s leading architects for more than twenty years, significantly shaping its design direction. She brings a highly creative and intuitive approach, grounded in a deep understanding of building systems and the craft of delivering architecture of lasting quality. Martina is CMCA’s leading urban designer, with more than 1,500,000 m² of successfully designed masterplans and sustainable communities.

Award-winning projects developed under Martina Chisholm’s careful design leadership, development and supervision include the winning masterplan for Prague International Airport (750,000 m² expansion), the AFI CITY urban regeneration project (150,000 m² / 16 ha brownfield redevelopment), the prestigious Pasohlávky Spa Resort (32 ha lakeside resort), the adaptive reuse of the Nuselský Brewery (25,000 m² historic brownfield conversion), and the organic vertical garden office complex BUTTERFLY KARLIN (20,000 m²).

A Prague‑based architect and long‑time project manager at CMC ARCHITECTS, with professional experience gained also in Austria and the United States. He specializes in large, complex developments — from brownfield transformations to office campuses and urban public spaces — and enjoys leading multidisciplinary teams that bring together architecture, art, technology, sociology, and ecology.

Accustomed to working with experienced clients, he values collaboration built on mutual understanding and shared learning. He is a licensed architect of the Czech Chamber of Architects and co‑author of Architect in practice, a book that sheds light on the complexity of architectural practice and promotes higher professional standards within the field.