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Andrew Frontini

(OAA, AAA, NSA, LEED BD&C) architect

Andrew Frontini (OAA, AAA, NSA, LEED BD&C) is a Toronto based architect with a broad experience spanning three decades. Andrew’s approach to design is driven by a strong social agenda. He uses bold material expressions and considered responses to context to create spaces around which communities form. By maintaining a design philosophy that is open and collaborative, Andrew never stops learning, producing, and evolving.

Andrew has taught at the University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University, and the University of Waterloo where he remains a visiting critic. He shares his passion for design through exhibitions, published articles, and speaking engagements. Andrew's designs for universities, municipalities, library systems, and commercial clients have been widely published in the local, national, and international press including Azure, Metropolis, Architecture, Architectural Record, Canadian Architect, Canadian Interiors and The Globe and Mail. He has received numerous design awards including the Governor General's medal for architecture, awards of excellence and merit from the OAA, Canadian Architect, The AIA, IIDA and the CAGBC among others. Andrew’s critically acclaimed monograph “Episodes in Public Architecture” a candid exploration of the architect’s creative and professional process, was published in 2025 by ORO editions.