Terri Meyer Boake

About

Terri Meyer Boake B.E.S., B.Arch., M.Arch., LEED AP is a Full Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada teaching since 1986. She has been teaching building construction, environmental design and architectural steel design.
She was part of the team responsible for the design of the new Architectural Engineering Degree offered at Waterloo, which saw its first graduating class in 2023. She is part of the steering committee for the AE program and also teaches a core introductory course as well as an AE Enclosure Studio.
Her area of research passion is Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel and has now published four extensive books on the subject with Birkhauser: Understanding Steel Design (2011), Diagrid Structures (2013), Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel (2015) and Complex Steel Structures (2020). She works with several agencies developing teaching resources for Architectural education as well as providing numerous continuing education talks, nationally and internationally, for architects and engineers in the applications of Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel. She has received a Special Achievement Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award and a Speaker Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction for her contributions to the field.
She is active with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, named the Chair of the Height and Data Committee. She is active with the Fire Engineering group and the Skyscraper Board. She was named a Fellow of CTBUH in 2023. She is an active member of the Education and Research Committee for CISC.