2010 年 75 巻 650 号 p. 963-968
The aim of this paper is to examine Viollet-le-Duc's architectural ideology through the analysis of his thought on Rose. In his Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, the doctrine of structural rationalism was invoked through his conviction that Gothic architecture was a rational affair of constructive logic. As well as the Gothic architecture, the rose window in the stone structure has its rationality and economy. In the entry Rose, Viollet-le-Duc viewed three ideas such as construction, composition and decoration, which played the very important roles in the progress of rose window in order to gratify the natural desire. Meanwhile, the functions of rose window are not limited in providing light, reducing construction, giving added solidity and withstanding wind pressure, but it has its movement based on the special system. Therefore, Rose is a work based on the system with its own reasons.