Terri Meyer Boake, BES, BArch, MArch, LEED AP
Professor School of Architecture University of Waterloo
email: tboake@uwaterloo.ca

 

 

 

Research + Publications:

 

 

 

 


“...a fundamental weakness in most discussions of architectural aesthetics is a failure to relate it to its matrix of experiential reality ... this leads immediately to serious misconceptions as to the actual relationship between the building and its human occupants.”
James Marston Fitch, 'Experiential Context of the Aesthetic Process', JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Winter 1988.

 

 
My research and subsequent writing speaks firstly to my role as an educator and the thought/research processes that relate to perfecting "teaching architecture + construction". My research started initially as an attempt to explore the relationship between architectural design and construction technology -- my first area of teaching. It has subsequently expanded to encompass the field of environmental and sustainable design. I will be forever indebted to the Society of Building Science Educators, and our first education retreat at Green Gulch in California in 1994 -- for opening my eyes and teaching sensibility to the fields of passive and sustainable design. They too have become my passion and an overriding theme in my teaching and research.

Conference Publications

 

Books

Façade Tectonics 14
Los Angeles

Hot Climate Double Façades: Avoiding Solar Gain

International Conference on Adaptation and Movement in Architecture,
Toronto, Canada, 10‐12 October 2013

Embrace Your Braces!

ICSA 2013
Second International Conference on Structures and Architecture, Portugal

The Dynamic Phraseology of Structures:
Enabling the Design of Complex Systems

Diagrid Structures: Innovation and Detailing

BTES Conference 2013
ABSTRACT CALCULATIONS VS CONTEXTUAL STUDY
The Need for New Approaches in the Teaching of (Complex) Structures

Architectural Engineering Institute Conference, Penn State, April 2013
Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: Clear Communications for a Better Project

Diagrids the New Stability System: Combining Architecture with Engineering

BTES at ACSA 2012
The 'CSI' Forensic Approach:
Re-Visioning Steel Education to Enable Creative 3D Thinking

100th ACSA Annual Meeting 2012
Boston

From Orthographic to Eccentric: The Tall Architecture of Extremes

BTES Conference 2011
Convergence + Confluence, Toronto

MIND THE GAP!
RAISING THE BAR: Re-integrating Design and Technology
through Design Competitions

13th National Building Envelope Council Conference
Winnipeg, Manitoba

ZERO IS A NUMBER:
Carbon Neutral Design Pushes the Science back into the Building Envelope


presentation link

98th ACSA Annual Meeting 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana

REDISCOVERING THE RENAISSANCE ARCHITECT:
The Role of Cooperative Education in the Architectural Curriculum

BTES Conference 2009
Assembling Architecture, Albuquerque

Steel Connections: Fun is Fondling the Details

ASES Solar Conference 2009
Buffalo, New York, May 2009
Preparing for the 2030 Challenge:
The Principles of Designing for Carbon Neutrality

Journal of Green Building - Fall 2008

THE LEAP TO ZERO CARBON AND ZERO EMISSIONS:
Understanding How to Go Beyond Existing Sustainable Design Protocols

97th ACSA Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon, March 2009
LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY: With or Without the Buy-In of your School

NEW DIMENSIONS OF COLLAGE: COLLISION, JUXTAPOSITION AND BLENDING Applications in the Representation of Architectural and Urban Spaces in Film
paper submitted for consideration but not accepted

Green is NOT a Colour
Talk to the Kitchener Waterloo Third Age Learners
March 6, 2008

NASCC Nashville, Tennessee
April 2008

AESS and the New Canadian Matrix

The Oxford Conference 2008
The Carbon Neutral Design Project

96th ACSA Annual Meeting
Houston, Texas, March 2008

Layering Up to the Truly Green Skin
paper submitted for consideration but not accepted

Changing Icons: The Symbols of New York City in Film

presentation 5MB

Defying Gravity: Space Architecture in Film Environments

presentation 3MB

Building Envelope Seminar - March 29, 2007
Toronto, Ontario
Pros and Cons of Double Skin Envelope Systems

National Building Envelope Council Conference
Banff, Alberta 2007

Principles into Practice
"Taking Inventory: Building Science Education in Architecture and Engineering Schools in Canada"

95th ACSA Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2007

Defying Gravity: Space Architecture in Film - An Opportunity Lost
paper submitted for consideration but not accepted

Building Technology Educators Society
First Symposium - University of Maryland, August 2006

“Do You Own a Hardhat and Safety Boots?”:
Maximizing Potential Learning through Construction Case Studies

22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
Iowa State University, April 2006

Greener Foundations: Environmental Sensibilities and Beginning Design Education - "The Box Projects"

ACSA Annual Meeting
Salt Lake City Utah, April 2006

Ordering Chaos: Computerism vs Humanism

Architecture and Film: Experiential Realities and Dystopic Futures

National Building Envelope Council Conference
Ottawa, Ontario 2005

LEED: Evaluating the Impact Potential on Building Envelope Design

ACSA Annual Meeting and Technology Conference
Chicago, March 2005
paper submitted for consideration but not accepted
Skins and LEED: Assessing the Impact

paper submitted for consideration but not accepted
Steel: Fun is in the Details
Developing expertise to support a tectonic culture

Canadian Solar Energy Society Conference -- SESCI
Waterloo, August 2004

LEED: A Tool for Evaluation and Comparison
Canadian Case Studies

LEED: The Relationship between Credits and Passive/Active/Renewables

National Building Envelope Council Conference, Vancouver, February 2003
ACSA Technology Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2002
"Understanding the General Principles of Double Skin Facade Construction"

ARCC/EAAE International Conference on Architectural Research, Montreal, May 2002

"The Tectonics of the Double Skin: Hi-tech or Hi-jinx?"

"The Tectonics of the Double Skin: North American Case Studies"

"Teaching Skins"

"Insulation vs. Insolation: The Difficulties of Cold Climate Design"

ACSA Annual Technology Conference, Montreal, June 1999

"Oasis: The Experiential Dimension of Architecture"

"Piercing Skin: Significance~Light~Tectonics"

"Measuring a Buildings' Vital Signs: Cold Climate Case Studies"

13th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Baton Rouge, 1996

"The Really True Story of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs: Integratig the Tactile and Technical in the Beginning Design Curriculum"

12th National Conference On Beginning Design Student, Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University, March 1995
"Intrinsically Linked Through Materiality: Conceptual Design~Technology~The Environment"

ACSA West Regional Meeting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Fall 1993
"Perspective and Perception: Towards a Mathematical Understanding of the Illusion"

 

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Understanding Steel Design

Understanding Steel Design: An Architectural Design Manual

available through Amazon.com

Birkhäuser, 2011

   
CISC AESS

CISC Guide for Specifying Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel

CISC 2012

   

Australia/New Zealand Guide for Specifying Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel

2012

   

Diagrid Structures: Systems, Connections, Details

Birkhäuser
2014

   

Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: Systems, Connections, Details

Birkhäuser
2015

Journals

JOURNAL OF GREEN BUILDING: Fall 2008
THE LEAP TO ZERO CARBON AND ZERO EMISSIONS:
Understanding How to Go Beyond Existing Sustainable Design Protocols

CANADIAN ARCHITECT: JULY 2003
Technical: Doubling Up

CANADIAN ARCHITECT: AUGUST 2003
Technical: Doubling UP II

CANADIAN ARCHITECT: JANUARY 2004
LEED: A Primer

CANADIAN ARCHITECT JANUARY 2006
Ordering Chaos: Building Libeskind's ROM

CANADIAN ARCHITECT: JUNE 2008
Constructing a Gehry: Transformation AGO

ADVANTAGE STEEL No. 31 - Spring 2008
The Canadian Matrix: A Category Approach for Specifying AESS

ADVANTAGE STEEL No. 26 - Summer 2006
The 3Rs of Steel: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

ADVANTAGE STEEL No. 22 - Spring 2005
Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: How is it Defined?

MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION: December 2011
The 3 Cs of AESS

MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION: April 2008
A Categorial Approach: The New Canadian Matrix for AESS

MODERN STEEL CONSTRUCTION: July 2008
Branching Out: Hollow Steel at the University of Guelph

Solar@Work: November 2010
Calculating Operating and Embodied Energy in a Carbon Neutral Steel Building

CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS: July 2012
Form, Fit and Finish

Datutop - Finnish Journal of Architecture
"A Place on Earth: Architecture in the Movies"
The Void in the Celluloid Skyline

Canada Innovates: 2006
Moving Towards Green: A Brief History of the Beginnings of Sustainable Design in Canada

Alternatives Journal: September 2004
Moving Towards Green: from the egg, via the ugly duckling, to the beautiful swan
An extended version of the article in the journal

Cornell Journal 6: 1999
Conflict Analysis: Can a Traditional Liberal Education Emerge from a Professional Degree?

Funded Research Projects

The Carbon Neutral Design Project

Funding through the American Institute of Architects and a Private Donor

 

Steel Structures Education Foundation

Fun is in the Details: Innovations in Steel Connections
 
Stars+Steel

Steel Structures Education Foundation

Stars+Steel

(work in progress)

 

Invited Appearances

Energy: The Way We Live

Steve Paiken's "Agenda" on TVO


 

 
 

last updated January 14, 2015