Architecture: Form, Space and Order

Title: Architecture: Form, Space, and Order.

Author: Francis D.K. Ching

ISBN: 978-0-471-75216-5 

Paperback 

No. of pages: 448  

Published: 

• 1975 (1st Ed.)  

• 1996 (2nd Ed.) 

• 2007 (3rd Ed.) 

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (3rd Ed.)

After asking few lecturers and seniors, they said that this is one of the must-read book if you're going for Architecture Department for Foundation and Degree level. This book is basically about exploring all the basics one architecture students should have i.e. the primary elements, like lines; then the form, basic forms, its transformations; Form and Space, talking about elevations, planes and openings, then the Organization of Form and Space, well I haven't yet read this part so... 

The book so far is well, awesome! With thousands of freehand drawings inside, and oh! I forgot to mention that the third edition comes with the new edition of CD-ROM that brings the book's architectural concepts to life through 3D models and animations created by Professor Ching himself. 

I think that's the not-so-much-of-a book review by me as I'm still picking up the architectural jargons from here and there (this book and that book..)... 

Anyway, you guys can check out this book at MPH and the price is around RM180, or you guys can buy it from me which cheaper price i.e. students price.