1998 Volume 63 Issue 508 Pages 169-175
This is a part of JIA's strategic study about architects and their clients. Based upon 140 architects questionnaires, this phase is to classify architects and to analyze their services. Results are as follows: 1) Many architects tend to give priority to clients' needs than their professional opinions. 2) Many architects regard practicality as the most important factor in planning, rather than cost planning, impressive designing or scheduling. However, architects in larger firms emphasize much importance of cost planning and consulting and less importance of impressive designing, compared to those in smaller firms. 3) Architects can be classified into 3 groups according to their characteristics. 4) Those are the design oriented group, the management oriented group and the intermediate group. 5) Based upon the classification, we analyzed the actual architects' services and those future direction by each group.
