David Winterton, principal at ERA Architects Inc. and author of “Toronto Edwardian: Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age,” recently spoke to Monocle Radio about Darling’s life and how Darling and Pearson shaped early 20th-century city cores in Toronto and across Canada.
“It became obvious that this firm had an outsize impact on the architectural production in Toronto, and really, the institutional core of Toronto,” says Winterton. “The Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Toronto General Hospital – all these buildings and institutions had their first iteration through Frank Darling.”
Listen to the full episode: https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-urbanist/749/
Read the article at Monocle.com: https://monocle.com/design/frank-darling-the-mystery-canadian-architect-who-designed-toronto/
