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Terri Meyer Boake B.E.S., B.Arch., M.Arch., LEED AP is a Full Professor and Associate Director at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada. She has been teaching building construction, environmental design and film at Waterloo Architecture since 1986.
She was part of the team responsible for the design of the new Architectural Engineering Degree offered at Waterloo, which will see 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…
CTBUH Designated Expert
CTBUH Roles
Awards Future Project Jury (Chair 2023; Chair 2024)
Expert Peer Review Committee (2024 – Present)
Annual Conference, Presenter (Shanghai 2014; China 2016; Chicago 2019)
Annual Conference, Session Chair (Australia 2017; Chicago 2019)
Annual Conference, Panel Moderator (Middle East 2018)
CTBUH Initiatives
Diagrid Structures Presentation
21 November 2019
Academic & Teaching Committee Holds Meeting at 2018 Conference
20 October 2018
CTBUH Canada: Supertall Toronto
29 November 2017
Videos
30 October 2017
CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference - Session 3C: Tall Timber Q&A
Monday 30 October, 2017. Sydney, Australia. Terri Meyer Boake, Professor, University of Waterloo, chairs the question and answer session with Philip Vivian, Director, Bates Smart;...
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Research
05 July 2023
We All Love to Get High: Optimizing Observation Deck Design
Terri Meyer Boake
Height is aspirational, and having the best view from that height has become a driver in contemporary tall building design. Likewise, observation decks are a...
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Research
01 December 2016
The Emergence of the Diagrid - It’s All About the Node
Terri Meyer Boake, University of Waterloo
The diagrid structural system for constructing tall buildings is a recent invention. Debuting in 2004 with the construction of the Swiss Re Tower in London,...
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CTBUH Initiatives
21 November 2019
Diagrid Structures Presentation
Join the CTBUH Canada Future Leaders Committee for a presentation on diagrid structures, an emerging technology merging structural solutions with aesthetically driven design ambitions.
20 October 2018
Academic & Teaching Committee Holds Meeting at 2018 Conference
The CTBUH Academic & Teaching Committee held a breakout meeting at the CTBUH 2018 Middle East Conference, discussing CTBUH’s evolving relationship to academia.
29 November 2017
CTBUH Canada: Supertall Toronto
CTBUH Canada held a breakfast event to showcase Toronto's first supertall, The One, which will stand at 307 meters tall and is currently under construction.
29 October 2017
CTBUH 2017 Conference Delegates Attend Tall Timber Workshop
Delegates gathered in the offices of Arup in Sydney to participate in the Tall Timber Workshop, which included 14 presenters speaking on topics relevant to the tall timber industry.
29 October 2017
CTBUH Leaders Connect at 2017 Conference
The Annual Leaders Meeting was held the day before the start of the CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference, bringing together the Council’s leaders.
29 October 2017
CTBUH Façade Fire Performance Workshop at University of Sydney
One day before the CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference, delegates convened at the University of Sydney facilities in Darlington for the Fire Performance of Façades workshop.
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30 October 2017
CTBUH 2017 Australia Conference - Session 3C: Tall Timber Q&A
Monday 30 October, 2017. Sydney, Australia. Terri Meyer Boake, Professor, University of Waterloo, chairs the question and answer session with Philip Vivian, Director, Bates Smart;...
18 September 2014
Measuring Tall Buildings: Has CTBUH got its Height Criteria Correct?
One of the roles of the CTBUH is to be a “voice of reason” as the arbiter of building height claims, and to be consistent...
Research
05 July 2023
We All Love to Get High: Optimizing Observation Deck Design
Terri Meyer Boake
Height is aspirational, and having the best view from that height has become a driver in contemporary tall building design. Likewise, observation decks are a...
01 December 2016
The Emergence of the Diagrid - It’s All About the Node
Terri Meyer Boake, University of Waterloo
The diagrid structural system for constructing tall buildings is a recent invention. Debuting in 2004 with the construction of the Swiss Re Tower in London,...
17 October 2016
Unpacking Composite Construction: Global Trends
Terri Boake, University of Waterloo
There has been a marked shift away from the use of steel as the primary structural system that had long been the Western standard for...
26 October 2015
It’s Not About the Skyline, It’s About the Base Condition
Terri Boake, University of Waterloo
The rapid densification of cities is a fairly recent phenomenon and seems in many cases to be progressing without regard to important already established urban...
16 September 2014
Closing the Gap between Fantasy and Reality: Pushing Current Technologies Into the Future
Terri Meyer Boake, University of Waterloo
The tall building is a discrete architectural type. The causal aspects of its evolution can assist in determining which aspects will be of the most...
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