Donald Schmitt (born 1951) is a Canadian architect. Born in 1951 in South Porcupine, a mining town in northern Ontario, he went to high school at the University of Toronto Schools (UTS) and studied afterwards at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture. Donald Schmitt has practiced architecture with A.J Diamond since 1978 and is a Principal in the firm currently known as Diamond Schmitt Architects Incorporated. He is the Founding Chair of the Public Art Commission for the City of Toronto for which he was awarded the Civic Medal and is currently a member of the University of Toronto Design Review Panel. He served on the Design Review Panel of the National Capital Commission for over a decade and for many years for Waterfront Toronto.

Buildings of note

Work in Progress

Publications

1996: Works: The Architecture of A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company, 1968-1995 2008: Insight and On Site, The Architecture of Diamond and Schmitt 2024: Set Pieces: Architecture for the Performing Arts in Fifteen Fragments

Awards