ABSTRACT
There are few forms in architecture to which men do not attach some meaning either by way of convention, use, purpose, or value. This includes the very mundane realization that a wood panel approximately three feet wide by seven feet high is a door, the more subtle feelings of warmth and protection at the entrance of some buildings and some of the most profound experiences of beauty and art. An advantage of the comparisons utilizing analysis of variance and Duncan multiple range tests was the ability to determine on which of the dimensions of meaning the greatest differences between the architects and laymen would occur. The most surprising finding was that the differences between the Architects, Pre-Architects, and Non-Architects on the Organization dimension were nearly as great as those on the Novelty-Excitement dimension in both magnitude and direction.
