Francis D. K. "Frank" Ching (born 1943) is an architecture and design graphics writer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. Ching was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Notre Dame in 1966. After several years of practice, in 1972 he joined the faculty at Ohio University to teach drawing. To support his lectures in architectural graphics, Ching hand-drew and hand-lettered his lecture notes. 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. Ching went on to produce twelve other books, including Building Construction Illustrated and Architecture: Form, Space & Ord