Yellowface: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from author R.F. Kuang - Softcover

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Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.

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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. TheupdatedThird Edition features expanded sections oncirculation, light, views, and site context, along with newconsiderations of environmental factors, building codes, andcontemporary examples of form, 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.