Abstract
This study aims to clarify the role and function of the icon in architecture through an examination of role, character and meaning of form as the icon which determine the outward appearance of architecture. The subject of our study is an opinion-survey which we call "Image Reseach of Architecture" performed in order to observe various architectural images. This report deals with some parts of the results from that opinion-survey, which included various evaluations and impressions about 76 exterior photographs of detached houses, by using 9 bi-polar perceptual scales and 4 categories of conceptual or taste images, and through the associated words and impressionistic detail of each house-form. In order to see the relations between each level of images, we first fixed 7 stereo-typical images of house-form which are gained in the previous report by the factor analysis of individual data of 9 bi-polar perceptual scales. And then, we obtained the characters of each type by summing up the data of each house. Through the comparison between these characters of each type, some typical relations between different levels of image were abstracted.
