Abstract
This report, following the previous report Part 1, deals with the relation between the exterior house-form and the word responses associated with it. This study intends to clarify the iconographical character of architectural forms in the contemporary social meaning. Analysing the words raised in response to 76 exterior photographs of detached houses, the previous report dealt with the mutual relations of different house-forms. A study was carried out in extracting eight groups based on the result. First, in this report, the correlation coefficient and factor analysis of each word were carried out in search of its mutual relations. As a result eight groups of words, each having a different character, were extracted. Next, to clarify the relations between these eight word groups and the eight house-form groups of the previous report, two correlation analyses were carried out : the rank-order correlation and the product-moment correlation between the factor scores of each house-form subsequent to the factor analysis of words and the factor loadings of each house-form. As a result we confirmed an almost perfect one-to-one correspondence between these two groups of eight. The characteristics described in individual word groups could then be used to help clarify the meaning of the eight house-form groups which were identified as the most appropriate solutions in the previous report. This study series concludes by examining the differences and the mutual relations of house-form groups by testing the significance of several words raised in each group.
