Terri Boake

Terri Meyer Boake, BES, BArch, MArch, LEED AP is a professor teaching in the School of Architecture and Department of Architectural Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She has been teaching in building construction, structures, environmental design and film since 1986 when she joined the School of Architecture. Her research passion is Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel and has now published four extensive books on the subject with Birkhauser. She works with several agencies developing teaching resources for Architectural education as well as continuing education for the AEC sector. She sits on several boards including the BTES, CISC Education and Research Committee, CTBUH, and OAA Committee for the Sustainable Built Environment.

• Architecture, Construction technology, Low Carbon design, Steel construction, AESS, Diagrids, Architecture and film

Member of the Canadian Institute for Steel Construction Education and Research Committee., Member of the Ontario Association of Architects Committee on the Sustainable Built Environment., Board Member for the Building Technology Educators' Society, Member of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Education Committee and Skyscraper Center Board, Advisory role for the TAD (Technology, Architecture and Design) Journal, Annual reviewer of papers and abstracts for ARCC/EAAE, PLEA, BTES conferences.

• 1986, Master's MArch, University of Toronto, Ontario

• 1982, Bachelor's BArch, University of Waterloo, Ontario

• 1979, Bachelor's BES, University of Waterloo, Ontario

• 2015 American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Educator Special Achievement Award

• 2007 An award for teaching excellence in the Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture.

• 2015 BTES Book Award for Diagrid Structures: Systems, Connections Details.

• AE 101 - History of the Built Environment
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• AE 200 - Enclosure Design Studio
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• ARCH 172 - Building Construction 1
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• ARCH 173 - Building Construction 2
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Terri Meyer Boake, Complexity, Simplified, Modern Steel Construction, , 2021

• Terri Meyer Boake, To Grind or Not to Grind, Modern Steel Construction, , 2019

• Terri Meyer Boake, When Aesthetics Govern, Modern Steel Construction, , 2018

• Terri Meyer Boake, The Art of the Bridge, Advantage Steel, 24, 2016

• Terri Meyer Boake, The Emergence of the Diagrid: It’s All About the Node, International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, 1, 2016

• Terri Meyer Boake, De-mystifying Diagrids: Expressive Structural System for Skyscrapers, Structural Engineering International (SEI) Journal, , 2016

• Terri Meyer Boake, Steel, Fun is in the Details, Visually Speaking, Modern Steel Construction, , 2016

• Terri Meyer Boake, The Evolution of Tall Buildings in the Gulf Region: From the Sensational to the Sensitive, AD Journal, 54, 2015

• Terri Meyer Boake, Hot Climate Double Façades: Avoiding Solar Gain, Facade Tectonics, , 2015

• Terri Meyer Boake, Tall Buildings: The Gap Between Fantasy and Reality, CTBUH Journal, 34, 2014

• Architecture students design winning urban food hub