Donald Schmitt

Donald Schmitt (born 1951) is a Canadian architect.

Born in 1951 in South Porcupine, a mining town in northern Ontario, he went to high school at the University of Toronto Schools (UTS) and studied afterwards at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture.

Donald Schmitt has practiced architecture with A.J Diamond since 1978 and is a Principal in the firm currently known as Diamond Schmitt Architects Incorporated.

He is the Founding Chair of the Public Art Commission for the City of Toronto for which he was awarded the Civic Medal and is currently a member of the University of Toronto Design Review Panel. He served on the Design Review Panel of the National Capital Commission for over a decade and for many years for Waterfront Toronto.

Buildings of note

1983: Metro Toronto YMCA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2002: University of Ontario Institute of Technology Master Plan 2003: Max M. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA 2004: Pierre Berton Resource Library, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada 2005: University of Guelph-Humber Academic Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2008: Cambridge City Hall, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada 2010: Evergreen Brick Works Centre for Sustainability, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2012: Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013: Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2017: Emily Carr University of Art+Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2017: National Arts Centre Rejuvenation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2017: The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto, Ontario 2019: The Senate of Canada Building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2021: The Drake Hotel's new Modern Wing, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2022: David Geffen Hall, New York, New York, USA

Work in Progress

Ādisōke, Ottawa Public Library - Library and Archives Canada joint facility, Ottawa, Ontario Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario Clinical Support and Research Centre at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick Park Road, Toronto, Ontario Temerty Faculty of Medicine's new James and Louise Temerty Building at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Publications 1996: Works: The Architecture of A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company, 1968-1995

2008: Insight and On Site, The Architecture of Diamond and Schmitt

2024: Set Pieces: Architecture for the Performing Arts in Fifteen Fragments

Awards 2019 Order of Canada