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Professor Francis D.K. Ching, also known as F.D.K. Ching, DK Ching, is one of architecture maestro. Many of his masterpieces books have been translated into a number of languages, the books have become standard texts for practicing architects. His basic information about architecture and construction books has been translated around the world for a long time.

If you came from architecture background, you should know or at least have heard about his name, and even has bought his books. Students of architecture classes bought Professor Ching’s books for classes, then keep them as reference sources. “Architecture: Form, Space & Order” (Van Nostrand, 1975) and “Architectural Graphics” (Van Nostrand, 1975) were bits of his masterpieces. Ching also known for his nice handwriting. Ching’s printing has been adopted by Adobe corp in its Tekton font family. Ching also achieved the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2007 for his writing.

DK. Ching was born in 1943 and spent his childhood in Hawaii. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Notre Dame in 1966, and in 1972 he joined the architecture faculty at Ohio University. Ching was, for a time, an architecture faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In about 1980s he teached at the University of Washington. DK Ching also taught at Tokyo Institute of Technology in early 1990s. About 2004, Ching retired from full-time teaching, and currently teaches part-time as Professor Emeritus. Source © ar-chi-tect.org, edited from wiki, . http://www.uwnews.org/ and related literatures.

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