David Winterton

David Winterton is an author, registered architect, and Principal at ERA Architects.

David co-leads ERA’s heritage custom residential portfolio with a focus on urban residences and clubhouses, properties in Heritage Conservation Districts, and other contextually sensitive neighbourhoods or landscapes, including rural estates. The majority of the portfolio involves work with historic houses and structures: improving them for modern uses, including aging-in-place, and proposing thoughtful approaches to extensions and additions that respect the context, especially the original architecture’s flow, character, scale, and materials.

David provides leadership in design and architectural history research across the firm and is active in all aspects of the practice, including design and architectural services, office and studio management, mentoring, research, scholarship, and writing.

His focused research on early-20th-century Canadian architecture and architects led to the forthcoming publication of his book Toronto Edwardian: Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age (McGill Queen’s University Press), the first monograph on important Canadian architect Frank Darling.

Before returning to ERA, David practiced for over a decade, ultimately in a Senior Associate role, at Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) in New York, where he worked on various complex, high-budget multifamily residential, single-family residential and commercial projects.

David received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto and his Master of Architecture degree from McGill University, in the History and Theory of Architecture Programme.

In ERA’s Meet the Principals series, David discusses urban layers and heritage heterodoxy.