Terri Meyer Boake

Terri Meyer Boake BES, B.Arch, M.Arch, LEED AP

Terri Meyer Boake is a Professor of the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. She is the Past President of the Society of Building Science Educators - an international group of academics that teach in the area of sustainable design. She is the Past President of the Building Technology Educators' Society, a group dedicated to vitalizing teaching in the areas of structures and construction. She has been teaching in building construction and structures since the early 1980s and launched an effort to expand the environmental core curriculum at the School of Architecture at Waterloo during the mid 1990s.

She works with the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction and the CISC Education and Research Committee to develop interactive multimedia case studies to promote the teaching of steel construction in schools of architecture across Canada. She is active on the CISC Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel task force and has published the "CISC Guide for Specifying Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel" in 2011 and the "Australia/New Zealand Guide for Specifying Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel" in 2012.

She has published 4 books on steel design with Birkhauser: Understanding Steel: An Architectural Design Manual; Diagrid Structures: Systems, Connections, Details; Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: Specifications, Connections, Details and Complex Steel Structures: Non Orthogonal Geometries in Building with Steel.

Terri Meyer Boake holds a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Waterloo and a post-professional degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto. She is an LEED-Accredited Professional in sustainable building.

She is a board member with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, working with the Skyscraper Center to document tall buildings, with the education committee and formerly with the height committee.

She is an avid photographer and has spent significant time traveling to document and bring noteworthy buildings to the attention of the community. Noting a deficiency and lack of critical construction process information available in current publications, her goal has been to document and present buildings with a "construction eye".