Roses in Architecture: One Symbol, Different Objects

Let's look carefully at some objects of Architecture and we'll find that in them we frequently can identify the same geometric shape. It is a particular flat geometric shape that can be presented in various ways, always maintaining regularity and dynamism: the rose window or rosette. We will stop our attention on two architectures: the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome and the skyscraper nicknamed «The Gherkin» in London. History, times and architects are very different and yet, looking at them from particular observation points, we come to find in them a rose window of the same type and shape. Our work aims to intrigue the observations that are made, but also to suggest to a teacher to take the opportunity, following the succession of ideas, to talk to a student in geometric terms of rosettes, of geometric shapes that compose them, but also of analyze its symbolic and aesthetic meaning in the observed architectures.