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Professor Terri Meyer Boake has been selected to receive the American Institute of Steel Construction's (AISC) 2015 Educator Special Achievement Award. This award honours individuals who have demonstrated notable singular or multiple achievements in the structural steel design, construction, research or education. The prestigious award will be presented to Terri at NASCC: The Steel Conference in March 2015. Congratulations Terri!

Available January 2015, Professor Terri Meyer Boake has just published a new text, Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: Specifications, Connections, Details, through Birkhäuser of Switzerland. The book is available for pre-order through DeGruyter.

University of Waterloo Architecture Alumni Andrea Lam is currently featured in the October 2014 edition of eWEAL (Waterloo Engineering Alumni eLetter). Please read the article below or visit the eWEAL website:

Re-thinking residences for an aging population

By Cynthia Kinnunen

Waterloo Architecture took part in this year's Paris Fashion Week. The Waterloo Hylozoic Architecture group led by Philip Beesley collaborated with fashion designer Iris Van Herpen to help create 10 dresses for her new Magnetic Motion collection.

The following article is currently featured on the University of Waterloo Engineering news website:

The University of Waterloo 2013-14 Report on Giving takes a look at the impact of investment over the course of the past year.

School of Architecture students Victoria Suen and Carrie Cheng were featured in the Report as they were one of nine recipients of funding from the Engineer of the Future Trust - a pool of discretionary micro-seed funding for budding entrepreneurs at Waterloo Engineering.

The 14th international Venice Architectural Biennale curated by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas opened on June 7, 2014. This year's exhibition entitled Fundamentals features the work of 65 participating countries and will run until November 23, 2014. 

Waterloo Architecture graduate Samantha Oswald has been selected to receive an Electronic Dissertation Thesis (EDT) Award from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) international consortium.

Waterloo Architecture student Simon McKenzie has been selected to receive the Ian Stantiall Juror Award from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI).

McKenzie's work, "Cultural Palaestra" was chosen from a field of seventy-eight entries from three countries.  He joins University of Waterloo MArch student Chanel Dehond as one of the top seven award winners.

The award will be given as a part of ASAI's twenty-ninth annual Architecture in Perspective exhibition, a preeminent exhibition of architectural illustration.

MArch candidate Chanel Dehond has been selected to receive a Student Award of Merit from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI).

The award will be given as a part of ASAI's twenty-ninth annual Architecture in Perspective exhibition, a preeminent exhibition of architectural illustration.

Dehond's work, "The Lost: A Design for a Day Spa" was named
one of the top seven awards, chosen from a field of seventy-eight entries from three countries.

Waterloo Architecture graduate Prithula Prosun's master thesis was recently featured in O Globo, one of the largest newspapers in Brazil.

Prosun's 2011 thesis, The LIFT House (Low-Income Floodproof Technology) was originally designed and constructed in Dhaka, Bangladesh as a solution for sustainable housing for low-income communities in flood-prone areas.