Frank Ching

Frank (Francis D. K.) Ching (born 1943) is a widely recognized author of books addressing architectural and design graphics. Ching's books have been widely influential and continue to shape the visual language of all fields of design. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.

Ching was born and raised in Hawaii. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Notre Dame in 1966. After several years of practice, in 1972 he joined the faculty at Ohio University to teach drawing. To support his lectures in architectural graphics, Ching hand-drew and hand-lettered his lecture notes. These notes were eventually shown to the publisher, Van Nostrand Reinhold, and were published, in 1974, in an edited version as "Architectural Graphics", (a book now in its fourth edition). Ching went on to produce twelve other books, including "Building Construction Illustrated" and "Architecture: Form, Space & Order".

Ching's printing has been adopted by Adobe in its Tekton font family.

Ching was, for a time, an architecture faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. By the late 1980s he had begun teaching at the University of Washington in the Department of Architecture. He became a full Professor in 1991. For the next fifteen years, he routinely taught introductory architecture studios and directed beginning graphics classes. In 2006 Ching retired; he currently teaches part-time as Professor Emeritus.

He taught as a visiting faculty member at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990 and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993.

Ching has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Design from Nottingham Trent University; the S.Y. Chung Visiting Fellowship, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong; and a Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing.

Ching received the Special Jury Commendation in the 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, and an AIA 2007 Institute Honor Award for Collaborative Achievement.

Books

The following list includes Frank Ching's books published in English; many of his books have been translated into one or more other languages.

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), "Architectural Graphics", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1975; 2nd ed. 1985; 3rd ed. 1996; 4th ed. John Wiley, New York 2003, ISBN 0471209066

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), "Architecture: Form, Space & Order", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1975, 2nd ed. 1996, 3rd ed. John Wiley, Hoboken 2007; ISBN 0471752169

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), and Winkel, Steven R., "Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2000 International Building Code", John Wiley, Hoboken 2003; ISBN 0471099805

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), and Winkel, Steven R., "Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2006 International Building Code", John Wiley, Hoboken 2007; ISBN 0471741892

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), "Building Construction Illustrated", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1975, 2nd ed. 1991 (Cassandra Adams, co-author), 3rd ed. John Wiley, New York 2003 (Cassandra Adams, co-author); ISBN 0471358983

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), with Juroszek, Steven P., "Design Drawing", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1998, ISBN 0442019092

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), "Drawing: A Creative Process", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1990, ISBN 0442318189

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), Jarzombek, Mark M., and Prakash, Vikramaditya, "A Global History of Architecture", John Wiley, Hoboken 2007, ISBN 0471268925

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), and Miller, Dale E., "Home Renovation", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1983, ISBN 0442215916

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), "Interior Design Illustrated", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1987; 2nd ed. John Wiley, Hoboken 2005 (co-author Corky Binggell), ISBN 0471473766

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), "Sketches from Japan", Wiley, New York 2000, ISBN 047136360X

* Ching, Frank (Francis D.K.), "A Visual Dictionary of Architecture", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1995, ISBN 0442009046

External links

* [http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/award.asp?catID=sj&nameID=ching Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2007]
* [http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0119/0119n_collab.cfm AIA 2007 Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement]
* [http://depts.washington.edu/archdept/cms/home/index.php?id=2&mid=7&fid=7 University of Washington Department of Architecture]