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Architecture: Form Space And Order (With CD) is a book on architectural planning by author Frank Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been considered as the perfect prelude to the introductory vocabulary of architectural design. The improved third edition contains enlarged portions on circulation, light, views, and site context, along with latest inclusions on environmental factors, building codes along with contemporary examples of form, space, and order. This apt visual perspective assists both students and aspiring architects to grasp the fundamental vocabulary of architectural design by testing how form and space are arranged in the already made world. Using his notably precise drawings, Professor Ching points out the connection between elementary objects of architecture from the ancient times and across cultural limits. Besides the improved matter and various new exemplifications, this edition provides a companion CD-ROM that portrays the architectural conceptions of the book through three-dimensional artifacts and animations designed by Professor Ching himself. In a nutshell, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order inspires the readers to examine the surroundings carefully and enables them to help build a more resonant perception of architecture. About the Author Born in 1943, Frank Ching is a broadly acclaimed author of books based on architectural and design graphics. Ching was raised in Hawaii. He obtained his B.Arch. degree from the University of Notre Dame. After few years of practice, he joined the Ohio University to teach drawing in the year 1972. Ching served as an architecture teacher at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, for a short period of time. Later on, he was selected as a faculty member at the University of Washington in the Department of Architecture. He got elected as a full Professor in 1991. For the following fifteen years, he regularly offered lessons in introductory architecture studies and managed beginning graphics classes. In 2006, Ching retired, though he had been teaching on a temporary practice until 2011. He has the experience of being a visiting faculty member at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990 and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. Apart from this book, he has authored several other books, some of which include Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2000 International Building Code, Architecture: Form, Space & Order, and Building Structures Illustrated: Patterns, Systems, and Design.