Abstract
This study intended to clarify the role and the function of the icon in architecture through an examination of the role, character and meaning of form as they determine the outward appearence of architecture. The subject of our study is an opinion-survey which we call [Image Reseach of Architecture] performed in order to obseve various architectural images. This report studied how the form of buildings was perceived by people in society. Through the opinion-survey the respondents were asked to illustrate the imaginary pictures as the exterior forms of the "house (IE)" or "archithcture (KENCHIKU)". Before starting this analysis, we set up some items of elment which can be derived from each illustration. First, based on frequency of each item, this report identified the characteristics of both the "form of house" and "architecture". And it continued by clarifying the mutual relations of these two images. Next, through the examination of the correlation matrix and factor-analysis of those items, several basic types of building shapes were extracted. And then, we tried to clarify the meaning and the structure of figures as they present the shapes of buildings, by means of the relation between the types though comparing several elments which each type of images contains.
