
Ching has gone on to produce twelve other books, including Building Construction Illustrated and Architecture: Form, Space & Order.Ĭhing's printing has been adopted by Adobe in its Tekton font family.Ĭhing was, for a time, an architecture faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Department chairman Forrest Wilson presented these notes to the publisher, Van Nostrand Reinhold, and they were published in 1975, in an edited version, as Architectural Graphics, a book now in its sixth edition. To support his lectures in architectural graphics, Ching hand-drew and hand-lettered his lecture notes. After several years of practice, in 1972 he joined the faculty at Ohio University to teach drawing. from the University of Notre Dame in 1966. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.Ĭhing was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

" Frank" Ching (born 1943) is an architecture and design graphics writer.
