The Text Description of Architecture behaving by itself is one of the major forms of communication for architects to express their conceptual intention. The objective of this paper is to reveal the aspect of architecture from the view of active expression through the text description. As a result, 17 types of frameworks were derived. Within these types, the ve major aspects were found the functional component which creates the speci c property, the constitutive component which expresses design

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... ethods, the space which takes in the surrounding, and the form which makes an impression. The active expression in the text doesn't have the existence of the architect. Therefore, these types of frameworks were revealed as an intrinsic properties of architecture when architect express their own design.