Gold Medalist Architect
Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler was born in Germany and educated, among others, at Weimer during the Bauhaus revival, post-1945. Mr. Zeidler immigrated to Canada, 1951, where he continued his architectural interests as Associate-in-Charge of Design and, later, a Partner, Blackwell & Craig, which has evolved into the present firm, Zeidler Roberts Partnership/Architects. His landmark buildings in Toronto include Toronto's Eaton Centre, Ontario Place, The Atrium at the Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital and the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts. Other projects include Canada Place (Vancouver), McMaster University Health Sciences Centre (Hamilton), Living Arts Centre (Mississauga), Media Park (Cologne), Columbus Centre of Marine Research and Exploration (Baltimore), Liberty Place – Phase II (Philadelphia), and the Yerba Buena Gardens (San Francisco). His works are also part of the London, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Barcelona cityscape. Mr. Zeidler won the prestigious Gold Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (1986), was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1984), and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (1981). In this 1991 view, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Mr. Zeidler, right, is conversing with Prince Charles, left, whose own interest in architecture is as well known internationally as is Mr. Zeidler’s architectural designs which span three continents. [Photo, courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario]