THE CLASSIC ARCHITECTURAL REFERENCE, UPDATED WITH CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES AND INTERACTIVE RESOURCES For more than forty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has served as the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated and revised Fourth Edition features the fundamental elements of space and form and is designed to encourage critical thought in order to promote a more evocative understanding of architecture. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order distills complex concepts of design into a clear focus and brings difficult abstractions to life. The book explains form and space in relation to light, view, openings, and enclosures and explores the organization of space, and the elements and relationships of circulation, as well as proportion and scale. In addition, the text’s detailed illustrations demonstrate the concepts presented and reveal the relationships between fundamental elements of architecture through the ages and across cultures. This edition includes an access card with a redemption code for the online Interactive Resource Center, which features thirty five animations, flashcards of key architectural terms, and an image gallery showcasing hundreds of photos that enrich the book’s content.

A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture Now including interactive CD-ROM! For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustratedArchitecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classicintroduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. Theupdated Third Edition features expanded sections on circulation,light, views, and site context, along with new considerations ofenvironmental factors, building codes, and contemporary examples ofform, space, and order. This classic visual reference helps both students and practicingarchitects understand the basic vocabulary of architectural designby examining how form and space are ordered in the builtenvironment.? Using his trademark meticulous drawing, ProfessorChing shows the relationship between fundamental elements ofarchitecture through the ages and across cultural boundaries. Bylooking at these seminal ideas,Architecture: Form, Space, andOrder encourages the reader to look critically at the builtenvironment and promotes a more evocative understanding ofarchitecture. In addition to updates to content and many of the illustrations,this new edition includes a companion CD-ROM that brings the book’sarchitectural concepts to life through three-dimensional models andanimations created by Professor Ching.