Michael McClelland

Michael McClelland 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.

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. 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.

McClelland has advocated widely for the recognition and conservation of modernist heritage architecture in Canada. 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.

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