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Wacław Piotr Zalewski (born 25 August 1917 in Zhytomyr in Ukraine) is a Polish construction engineer and designer, creator of innovative buildings such as Spodek in Katowice, "Supersam" in Warsaw from the roof of the structure funikularnej,[clarification needed] or train station in Katowice. He is Professor Emeritus of Structural Design at MIT.

Early life and education

He was born in 1917 to a Polish family settled in Zhytomyr since the seventeenth century. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising in Czerniaków. Went to Tadeusz Czacki High School in Warsaw, where he was in the same graduating class as the poet priest Jan Twardowski.

In 1947 he graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, which he began before the war, eventually graduating Gdańsk University of Technology.

Career

He has designed a whole range of new industrial construction. He was repeatedly sent to foreign conferences within the so-called communist - owski[clarification needed] " the proclamation of Polish technical thought." In 1962 he earned a Ph.D. at the Technical University of Warsaw.

In the years 1962 to 1966, he was in Venezuela at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida. From 1962 to 1963, in Venezuela as a Visiting Professor,[citation needed] and later worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Public Works in Caracas. He designed a number of innovative structures, including buildings of hanging roofs and structures funikularne.[clarification needed] His greatest achievement in Poland was working in the Office for the Study and Design of Industrial Building Types (BISTYP) in Warsaw.[when?]

In 1965 he was invited as a full, tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked full-time until 1988, when he retired. Since that time, he has been a professor emeritus of architecture. He is considered one of the pioneers of the techniques of linear- rod on the principle of tensegrity structures in light canopies without the use of load-bearing columns. He wrote the book Shaping Structures. Among others streams forces introduced as a method for the calculation of the structure.[clarification needed]

The exhibition "Shaping Structures" shown at MIT, supplemented by the Polish exhibits such as a model Supersam of plywood and boards, was also shown in Poland at the Technical University of Łódź, then in Warsaw in the Association of Polish Architects in Foksal, then Gdańsk University of Technology, and Wrocław University of Technology. A portion of the exhibit was also shown at Roger Williams University School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation in Bristol, Rhode Island, in Fall 2006.

In 1998, he received an honorary doctorate from Warsaw University of Technology from the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Civil Engineering.[citation needed]

Projects

Architect/Engineer

  • Department of Forest Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes (Mérida, Venezuela, 1965)

Structural Engineering

  • Sports hall in Maracaibo (Venezuela, 1965)

Engineer

Westplatte - Monument to the Coast Defenders

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