About
Jon Cummings Architecture (JC-A) is a full-service architectural design firm. We help our clients by designing custom homes and multi-family residential at all scales from townhomes to towers. We design buildings for universities and colleges. We have experience designing offices, retail, cultural buildings and government buildings. We work with our clients to design interiors for our projects. We are a small studio and provide your project with a great deal of attention.
We Want to Work with Clients Like You if:
- You care about quality and craft
- You like beautiful spaces, rich textures, modern aesthetics and have strong opinions
- You want a special building. This may be a custom home tailored to your needs. Or if you are a developer, business or institution, it may be a unique layout and aesthetic to enhance the value of your project and brand
- You have a reasonable budget, but nothing open-ended. We deeply respect costs and work strenuously with you and your contractors to help you afford your project
Our Values:-
We design future-thinking, energy efficient buildings that fit well in their contexts
- We work very hard for our clients, and are exceedingly responsive to calls and emails, meeting as often as required
- Our buildings are all bespoke. We work with you to design versions until you are satisfied
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We like collaborating with good consultants and builders
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We love architecture and the history and culture of our discipline. We treat every building in part as a position on how we ought to build in the 21st century
Jon Cummings, HBAS, M Arch, OAA
Jon is an architect with over two decades of experience in the field of architecture. This breadth of knowledge is applied to the work that JC-A does for our clients.
Prior to founding JC-A, Jon worked for 10 years at architects-Alliance in Toronto, where he designed and managed mixed use, multi-unit residential, office, retail, cultural, and academic buildings at all project stages from design through construction. Previous to that, Jon’s varied experiences included work for Morphosis in Los Angeles, and at offices in New York, Boston, Dublin, and Toronto. The he worked on diverse project types including an American embassy, offices, libraries, single family homes, and exhibitions at locations around the world.
Jon teaches undergraduate and graduate level architecture studios, part-time, as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design at the University of Toronto. To Jon, teaching helps keep the architecture practice fresh, sharpening design thoughts and exploring issues that overlap with our work.
Jon holds architecture degrees from the University of Waterloo (HBAS) and University of Toronto (M Arch) where he was distinguished on graduation with both the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the American Institute of Architects School Medals. Jon is a licensed member of the Ontario Association of Architects.
