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Title: Architecture: Form, Space, and Order by Frank D.K. Ching, Francis D. Ching ISBN: 0-471-28616-8 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent illustrations
Comment: An excellently illustrated dictionary of architecture. Good for reference and fun for just browsing.

Rating: 5
Summary: This is a great book
Comment: After seeing this book on the shelf of a friend's architecture office, I bought it for my homeschooled children who are genuinely interested in architecture and building...Their dad (who teaches drafting and construction) and I could not put it down! The drawings are clear and so comprehensive. The book covers so much...Architectural styles, drawing types, etc. Mostly in drawings with very little text. So many architecture books are filled with heavy text, that you are lost in it, rather than learning the ideas and concepts. That is not a problem here. It is not to say that in any way this is a simplistic, elementary book...I'm sure it is used at the post-graduate and professional levels. The drawings and captions/info just say so much more than all those words! We are all learning a lot from this book, and are looking forward to buying more of this man's work.

Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing - solely for architects, no-one else.
Comment: As a practicing civil engineer, I wanted a book that allowed me to add some architectural flavour to my houses. This book did not do that. It is really a coffee table book about the different ancient and modern architectural styles without really explaining how to practically go about adding such features.

I suppose in the architectural world all the flowery language and concepts mean something, but its practically useless to anyone outside.

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