Understanding Steel Design ─ An Architectural Design Manual

Beautifully structured, clear, and well-illustrated (with photos by the author, and technical illustrations), this guide for architects represents the distillation of Boake's roughly 30 years of experience teaching building construction at the U. of Waterloo, Canada. She offers carefully considered case-based analysis and instruction pertaining to the materiality of steel, connections and framing techniques, and fabrication and design, among many other topics. Her research has been sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction and the Steel Structures Education Foundation of Canada. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Terri Meyer Boake is a Professor and Associate Director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Canada. She is Past President of the Society of Building Science Educators and has cooperated with the Building Technology Educators Society, the Steel Structures Education Foundation and the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. She has lectured and published widely on steel design and construction.

Vincent Hui is Assistent Professor at the Ryerson University Department of Architectural Science in Toronto, Canada. His research and teaching activities focus on Design Communications and Fabrication, Architectural Pedagogy and the Relationship between Architecture and Media.