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 determines the outward appearance of architecture. The subject of our study is based on the results of an opinion-survey which we call "Image Reseach of Architecture" in order to observe various architectural images and meanings. In this report, we try to clarify the images of <house> and <architecture>, and the relations between both images and the exterior-forms of contemporary houses. At first, we present the typical images of both words as two-dimensional figures and imaginary illustrations, which were extracted from the analysis in previous reports. Next, we extract the outward-shapes related to both words among some photographs of constructed objects, and the positions of both images among the categories of building-types, derived from the results of some investigations. And then, we examine the forms and the characters of stereo-types in house-shape (derived from previous reports) connected to both words. Finally, through these analysis, we summarized the images and meanings of <house> and <architecture>, which are typologically structurized in society.
