Raymond Moriyama (1929–2023) was a Canadian architect whose Toronto practice, Moriyama & Teshima Architects, designed major buildings in Canada and abroad. Born in Vancouver, he was confined with his family to an internment camp in British Columbia's Slocan Valley during the Second World War, as Japanese Canadians were, and there built a tree house that he later called "my university, my place of solace". He studied at the University of Toronto and McGill, founded his firm in 1958, and was joined by Ted Teshima in 1970. He called his aim a humane architecture.
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His first large independent work was the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto (1969), which opened as a hands-on science museum. The William G. Davis Building at the University of Toronto Mississauga (1973) and the Toronto Reference Library (1977), the largest public reference library in Canada, followed. The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto (1995) is shaped like a shoe box, its tilted roof set askew like a lid. For the National Museum of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh (1999) he drew on the form and colour of the red sand dunes outside the city.
