German-Canadian architect Eberhard “Eb” Heinrich Zeidler, OC, OOnt, died on January 7, 2022 at the age of 95.

A 2011 Lifetime Design Achievement recipient from the OAA, his iconic and landmark structures included the Eaton Centre, Ontario Place, and Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, as well as the McMaster Health Sciences Centre in Hamilton and Canada Place in Vancouver.

Zeidler, who designed more than 1000 buildings, had a profound impact on Canada’s built environment. His practice, Zeidler Architecture Inc., has offices in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Berlin, and Beijing.

In a Daily Commercial News article, OAA President Susan Speigel shared her praise for Zeidler’s iconic designs and “contributions to architecture and its early seminal importance evolving [Toronto’s] public realm.”

“His early education in Germany, directly influenced by the Bauhaus school, shaped a sensibility of prioritizing the importance of craft and its relationship to the wholeness of an artistic vision in the built environment,” she noted.

To read the full article, “Zeidler Remembered for Visionary Designs Across Canada” by Angela Gismondi, click here.

You can read his online obituary, as well as his eponymous practice’s announcement.

Other pieces have also been written about the man and his work by the Globe and Mail (“Architect Eberhard Zeidler brought a Bauhaus sensibility to a burgeoning Toronto”), the Toronto Star (“Renowned architect Eb Zeidler left his mark on Toronto”), and Canadian Architect (“In Memoriam: Eb Zeidler, 1926-2022”).