{{Short description|Canadian architect}} {{for|the professor of microbiology and genetics|Michael McClelland (academic)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} [[File:Michael McClelland at The Power Plant Gallery in Toronto in May 2024.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|McClelland at The Power Plant Gallery in Toronto in May 2024.]] '''Michael McClelland''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OAA|AAA|AIBC|NSAA|OAQ|FRAIC|CAHP}} 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.<ref name="Announcing Founding Principal Edwin Rowse’s retirement from ERA Architects Inc.">{{Cite web|title=Announcing Founding Principal Edwin Rowse’s retirement from ERA Architects Inc.|url=https://www.eraarch.ca/2019/announcing-founding-principal-edwin-rowses-retirement-from-era-architects-inc/|website=eraarch.ca|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Heritage and Cultural Health Panel">{{cite web|title=Heritage and Cultural Health: An Interdisciplinary Panel with ERA Architects|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI2xtmKofFk|website=youtube.com|publisher=ERA Architects|access-date=3 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Michael McClelland Cultural Landscape Foundation Biography">{{Cite web|title=Michael McClelland Profile|url=https://www.tclf.org/profile/council/michael-mcclelland|website=tclf.org|access-date=3 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Azure Magazine Interview with Michael McClelland">{{Cite web|title=Living Heritage: A Conversation with Michael McClelland|url=https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/living-heritage-a-conversation-with-michael-mcclelland/|website=azuremagazine.com|access-date=3 December 2024}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Learning from the Distillery District">{{Cite web|title=Learning from the Distillery District|url=https://www.canadianarchitect.com/learning-from-the-distillery-district/|website=canadianarchitect.com|access-date=3 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Fashioning the Distillery District : An architecture of spectacle and performance">{{cite thesis|last=Wung|first=Kristy|date=2007|title=Fashioning the Distillery District: An architecture of spectacle and performance|page=48|degree=Master of Architecture|publisher=University of Waterloo|url=https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/3276/BOOK2.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Exploring Industrial Heritage and Revitalization at the Chaudière Islands">{{cite thesis|last=Mahoney|first=Jennifer|date=2010|title=Exploring Industrial Heritage and Revitalization at the Chaudière Islands|page=49|degree=Master of Landscape Architecture|publisher=University of Guelph|url=https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/8f32342b-57ca-438c-a072-879ef03d9d36/content|access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref>
McClelland has advocated widely for the recognition and conservation of modernist heritage architecture in Canada.<ref name="Concrete Toronto: A guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies">{{cite book |last1=McClelland |first1=Michael|last2=Stewart|first2=Graeme|date=2007|title=Concrete Toronto: A guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies|url=https://chbooks.com/Books/C/Concrete-Toronto3|location=Toronto|publisher=Coach House Books|isbn=978-1-55245-193-9}}</ref><ref name="Michael McClelland on Everyday Modern Architecture for ACO 150 Plus">{{cite web|title=Michael McClelland on Everyday Modern Architecture for ACO 150 Plus|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0wnsA6Kd4&ab_channel=ArchitecturalConservancyOntarioTorontoOffice|website=youtube.com|publisher=Architectural Conservancy Ontario Toronto Office|access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Towers: a comparison in evaluation, context, and conservation">{{cite journal|last1=McClelland|first1=Michael|last2=Cohen|first2=Alexis H.|last3=Paglialunga|first3=Christine|date=2017|title=Towers: a comparison in evaluation, context, and conservation|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13556207.2017.1312762|journal=Journal of Architectural Conversation|volume=23 |issue= |pages=106-115|doi=10.1080/13556207.2017.1312762|access-date=4 December 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Toronto Towers: A Case Study">{{cite web|title=Toronto Towers: A Case Study|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9p8rIbIpUQ&ab_channel=GettyConservationInstitute|publisher=Getty Conservation Institute|access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Capturing Mid-Century Toronto: Spadina Road Apartments">{{Cite web|title=Capturing Mid-Century Toronto: Spadina Road Apartments|url=https://www.heritagetoronto.org/explore/capturing-mid-century-toronto/spadina-road-apartments/|website=heritagetoronto.org|access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="100 Spadina Road">{{Cite web|title=100 Spadina Roads|url=https://www.eraarch.ca/projects/100-spadina-road/|website=eraarch.ca|access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties">{{cite book |last=McClelland |first=Michael|date=2007|title=The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring & Reconstructing Historic Buildings|url=https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1739/upload/treatment-guidelines-2017-part1-preservation-rehabilitation.pdf|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Technical Preservation Services}}</ref>
McClelland’s books include ''Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies''.
== Early life and education == McClelland graduated from the University of Toronto in 1981 with a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://raic.org/sites/raic.org/files/raic/documents/2006fellows.pdf|title=Honorary Fellows – Hon. FRAIC, 2006|website=Royal Architectural Institute of Canada}}</ref>
== Career ==
=== Architecture and conservation === [[File:Main Street of Distillery District (22682684807).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3|Toronto's Victorian Distillery District is visited by more than two million visitors annually.<ref name="The Distillery District Celebrates 20 Years of Transformative Cultural and Commercial Success">{{cite web|title=The Distillery District Celebrates 20 Years of Transformative Cultural and Commercial Success|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/the-distillery-district-celebrates-20-years-of-transformative-cultural-and-commercial-success-804420841.html#:~:text=The%20site%20has%20attracted%20global,social%20fabric%20cannot%20be%20overstated.|publisher= The Distillery Historic District|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref>]] 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.<ref name="Guest post: Michael McClelland on the OHA and the 'New Heritage'">{{Cite web|title=Guest post: Michael McClelland on the OHA and the "New Heritage"|url=https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.com/2016/06/|website=danschneiderheritage.blogspot.com|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Michael McClelland Bio">{{Cite web|title=Michael McClelland Bio|url=https://www.eraarch.ca/people/michael-mcclelland/|website=eraarch.ca|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Lorinc|first1=John|author-link=John Lorinc|url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3235045&R=3235045|title=The Ward : the life and loss of Toronto's first immigrant neighbourhood|last2=McClelland|first2=Michael|last3=Scheinberg|first3=Ellen|last4=Taylor|first4=Tatum|publisher=Coach House Books|year=2015|isbn=978-1-55245-311-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=McClelland|first1=Michael|last2=Graeme|first2=Stewart|last3=Ord|first3=Asrai|date=2011|title=Reassessing the Recent Past: Tower Neighborhood Renewal in Toronto|url=http://towerrenewal.com/wp-content/uploads/McClelland-article-to-printer.pdf|journal=Journal of Preservation Technology|volume=42:2|issue=3}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Toronto Towers: A Case Study">{{cite web|title=Toronto Towers: A Case Study|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9p8rIbIpUQ&ab_channel=GettyConservationInstitute|publisher=Getty Conservation Institute|access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tersigni|first=Alessandro|date=2023|title=Retrofits and Reimaginings: Two Fresh Angles on Adapting Heritage Buildings|url=https://media.eraarch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12124146/OAHP-Newsletter-No.-10-Spring-2023.pdf|journal=Good Footings: The Newsletter of the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals}}</ref><ref name="The Tower Renewal Project">{{Cite web|title=The Tower Renewal Project|url=https://www.eraarch.ca/projects/the-tower-renewal-project/|website=eraarch.ca|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="The Tower Renewal Partnership Overview">{{Cite web|title=The Tower Renewal Partnership|url=http://cugr.ca/tower-renewal-partnership/|website=cugr.ca|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="The Tower Renewal Partnership Press and Media">{{Cite web|title=The Tower Renewal Partnership|url=https://towerrenewal.com/press-media/news-articles/|website=towerrenewal.com|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Tower Blocks, Modern Suburbs, and 21st Century Urbanism in Toronto">{{cite web|title=Tower Blocks, Modern Suburbs, and 21st Century Urbanism in Toronto|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5hnwoCTxI&ab_channel=GreatCitiesInstitute|publisher= Great Cities Institute|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref>
[[File:Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton, Ontario, during Tower Renewal retrofit.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|right|alt=Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton, Ontario, during Tower Renewal retrofit by ERA Architects|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.<ref name="Canada’s Ken Soble Tower certified as world’s largest residential Passive House EnerPHit retrofit">{{cite web|title=Canada’s Ken Soble Tower certified as world’s largest residential Passive House EnerPHit retrofit|url=https://www.eraarch.ca/2022/canadas-ken-soble-tower-certified-as-worlds-largest-residential-passive-house-enerphit-retrofit/|publisher= ERA Architects|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref>]]
=== ERA Architects Inc. === 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.<ref name="ERA Projects">{{Cite web|title=ERA Projects|url=https://www.eraarch.ca/projects/|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref>
== Publications == 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.<ref name="Couch House Books: Michael McClelland">{{Cite web|title=Michael McClelland|url=https://chbooks.com/Authors/M/McClelland-Michael|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://towerrenewal.com/research-reports/concrete-architecture-from-the-fifties-to-the-seventies/|title=Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies – Tower Renewal Partnership|publisher=Tower Renewal Partnership|access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref>
In 2019 McClelland co-produced the musical ''The Ward Cabaret'' with the journalist John Lorinc, which featured at Soulpepper, Luminato, and the Harbourfront Centre.<ref name="About The Ward Cabaret">{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://wardcabaret.com/about-us/|website=wardcabaret.com|access-date=11 December 2024}}</ref>
== Awards and recognition == 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.<ref name="The Distillery District">{{Cite web|title=The Distillery District|url=https://www.eraarch.ca/projects/the-distillery-district/|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="2017 Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award recipients">{{Cite web|title=2017 Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award recipients|url=https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/user_assets/documents/LGOHA-2017-Recipients-backgrounder-ENG.pdf|access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.caledon.ca/en/explore/resources/BoltonHCD-Background_Issues_Identification_Report_12Sep2013.pdf|title=VILLAGE OF BOLTON HERITAGE CONSERVATION DISTRICT STUDY|date=2013|publisher=ERA Architects Inc.}}</ref>
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