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Michael McClelland

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Michael McClelland OAA FRAIC is a Canadian architect and author. Together with architect Edwin Rowse, in 1990 McClelland founded the Toronto heritage architecture and cultural planning firm ERA Architects.[1]

McClelland at The Power Plant Gallery in Toronto in May 2024.

McClelland has worked on sites including Evergreen Brickworks, Mirvish Village, The Royal Ontario Museum, Union Station, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Maple Leaf Gardens, Sharon Temple, and the Senate of Canada Building.[2][3][4] McClelland was prime architect for the redevelopment of the Distillery District, a pedestrian cultural district contained by the largest group of Victorian industrial buildings in North America.[5][6][7]

McClelland has advocated widely for the recognition and conservation of modernist heritage architecture in Canada.[8][9][10][11] In 2005 McClelland advocated for the protection of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s TD Centre under the Ontario Heritage Act and restored the centre's two original towers in 2013. McClelland has also restored and advocated for the recognition of mid-century “everyday modern” buildings such as Estonian-Canadian architect Uno Prii’s Spadina Road Apartments in Toronto, the process of which was featured in the United States Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.[12][13][14]

McClelland’s books include Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies.

Early life and education

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McClelland graduated from the University of Toronto in 1981 with a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch).[15]

Career

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Architecture and conservation

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Toronto's Victorian Distillery District is visited by more than two million visitors annually.[16]

In the 1970s McClelland held positions at the City of Vancouver's heritage department and in the 1980s at the City of Toronto’s heritage department and the Toronto Historical Board.[17][18] He was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) in 1984 and has chaired the Toronto Society of Architects and the Friends of Allan Gardens, served on the boards of the Association for Preservation Technology International and the International Council on Monuments and Sites Canada, and been a council member of the Ontario Association of Architects.[19][20][19]

In 2008, together with architect Graeme Stewart McClelland founded the Tower Renewal Partnership, an initiative that promotes and facilitates the sustainable retrofitting of postwar slab apartment towers across Canada.[11] The City of Toronto established a Tower Renewal department the same year. In 2023, over 2,000 towers across Toronto and Canada had been impacted as a result of this private-public initiative. [21][22][23][24][25]

 
The Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton, Ontario, was retrofitted by ERA Architects in 2021 as part of their Tower Renewal Partnership and is the world’s largest residential building that meets the Passive house standard.[26]

ERA Architects Inc.

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McClelland founded ERA Architects with Edwin Rowse in 1990. As one of the largest heritage architecture firms in Canada with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Calgary, ERA has worked on sites such as Centre Block, the Royal Victoria Hospital, The Grange, St. James’ Cathedral, MOCA Toronto, the Flatiron Building, Colborne Lodge, Toronto’s Canada Malting Silos, Bell Media Studios, the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives, Stanley Barracks, Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, St. Lawrence Hall, the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design building, University College, Victoria University, the Munk School of Global Affairs, the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, Trinity Bellwoods Gates, Macdonald Block, the Don Jail, and The Carlu.[27]

Publications

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McClelland has edited and coauthored books on architecture, culture, and urbanism including East/West: A Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto, The Ward Uncovered: The Archaeology of Everyday Life, The Ward: the Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood, and Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies which won a Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence, a Design Exchange Award, and the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals Award of Merit. [28][29]

In 2019 McClelland co-produced the musical The Ward Cabaret with the journalist John Lorinc, which featured at Soulpepper, Luminato, and the Harbourfront Centre.[30]

Awards and recognition

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McClelland is a multiple recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation and has been awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Governor General’s Medal in Architecture, the Ontario Association of Architects Award of Excellence, the Canadian Architect Award of Merit, and the City of Toronto Urban Design Award of Excellence. He is a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.[31][32][33]

References

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  1. ^ "Announcing Founding Principal Edwin Rowse's retirement from ERA Architects Inc". eraarch.ca. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Heritage and Cultural Health: An Interdisciplinary Panel with ERA Architects". youtube.com. ERA Architects. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Michael McClelland Profile". tclf.org. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Living Heritage: A Conversation with Michael McClelland". azuremagazine.com. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Learning from the Distillery District". canadianarchitect.com. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  6. ^ Wung, Kristy (2007). Fashioning the Distillery District: An architecture of spectacle and performance (PDF) (Master of Architecture thesis). University of Waterloo. p. 48. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  7. ^ Mahoney, Jennifer (2010). Exploring Industrial Heritage and Revitalization at the Chaudière Islands (Master of Landscape Architecture thesis). University of Guelph. p. 49. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  8. ^ McClelland, Michael; Stewart, Graeme (2007). Concrete Toronto: A guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies. Toronto: Coach House Books. ISBN 978-1-55245-193-9.
  9. ^ "Michael McClelland on Everyday Modern Architecture for ACO 150 Plus". youtube.com. Architectural Conservancy Ontario Toronto Office. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  10. ^ McClelland, Michael; Cohen, Alexis H.; Paglialunga, Christine (2017). "Towers: a comparison in evaluation, context, and conservation". Journal of Architectural Conversation. 23: 106–115. doi:10.1080/13556207.2017.1312762. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Toronto Towers: A Case Study". Getty Conservation Institute. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Capturing Mid-Century Toronto: Spadina Road Apartments". heritagetoronto.org. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  13. ^ "100 Spadina Roads". eraarch.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  14. ^ McClelland, Michael (2007). The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring & Reconstructing Historic Buildings (PDF). U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Technical Preservation Services.
  15. ^ "Honorary Fellows – Hon. FRAIC, 2006" (PDF). Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
  16. ^ "The Distillery District Celebrates 20 Years of Transformative Cultural and Commercial Success". The Distillery Historic District. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  17. ^ "Guest post: Michael McClelland on the OHA and the "New Heritage"". danschneiderheritage.blogspot.com. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  18. ^ "Michael McClelland Bio". eraarch.ca. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  19. ^ a b Lorinc, John; McClelland, Michael; Scheinberg, Ellen; Taylor, Tatum (2015). The Ward : the life and loss of Toronto's first immigrant neighbourhood. Coach House Books. ISBN 978-1-55245-311-7.
  20. ^ McClelland, Michael; Graeme, Stewart; Ord, Asrai (2011). "Reassessing the Recent Past: Tower Neighborhood Renewal in Toronto" (PDF). Journal of Preservation Technology. 42:2 (3).
  21. ^ Tersigni, Alessandro (2023). "Retrofits and Reimaginings: Two Fresh Angles on Adapting Heritage Buildings" (PDF). Good Footings: The Newsletter of the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals.
  22. ^ "The Tower Renewal Project". eraarch.ca. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  23. ^ "The Tower Renewal Partnership". cugr.ca. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  24. ^ "The Tower Renewal Partnership". towerrenewal.com. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  25. ^ "Tower Blocks, Modern Suburbs, and 21st Century Urbanism in Toronto". Great Cities Institute. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  26. ^ "Canada's Ken Soble Tower certified as world's largest residential Passive House EnerPHit retrofit". ERA Architects. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  27. ^ "ERA Projects". Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  28. ^ "Michael McClelland". Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  29. ^ "Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies – Tower Renewal Partnership". Tower Renewal Partnership. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  30. ^ "About Us". wardcabaret.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  31. ^ "The Distillery District". Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  32. ^ "2017 Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award recipients" (PDF). Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  33. ^ "VILLAGE OF BOLTON HERITAGE CONSERVATION DISTRICT STUDY" (PDF). ERA Architects Inc. 2013.
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