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: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto, 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
 * 2010: Evergreen Brick Works Centre for Sustainability, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 * 2013: Hospital for Sick Children Research Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Work in Progress

 * Barrie Waterfront Development Project, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
 * St. Catharines Centre for the Performing Arts, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
 * Brock University School of Performing Arts, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
 * Emily Carr University of Art+Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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.

Awards

 * 2019 Order of Canada