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 ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)