Wacław Zalewski
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Wacław Piotr Zalewski (25 August 1917 – 29 December 2016) was a Polish construction engineer and designer, creator of innovative buildings such as "
Early life and education
Zalewski was born on 25 August 1917 to a Polish family settled in Samgorodek, Ukraine since the seventeenth century. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 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 from the Gdańsk University of Technology.
Career
He has designed a whole range of new industrial construction. He was repeatedly sent to foreign conferences during the communist era to "proclaim the Polish technical thought." In 1962 he earned a Ph.D. at the Technical University of Warsaw. His greatest achievement in Poland was working in the Office for the Study and Design of Industrial Building Types (BISTYP) in Warsaw until 1963.[when?]
In the years 1962 to 1966, he was in Venezuela at the
In 1965 he was invited as a full, tenured professor at the
The exhibition "Shaping Structures" shown at MIT, supplemented by the Polish exhibits such as a model Supersam was also shown in Poland at the
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]
Death
He died on 29 December 2016 at the age of 99.[1]
Projects
Architect/Engineer
- Department of Forest Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes (Mérida, Venezuela, 1965)
Structural Engineering
- Gimnasium Pedro Elias Belisario in Maracaibo (Venezuela, 1965)
Engineer
- Museum of Art in Caracas, Venezuela (1973)
- Keum Jung Sports Park in Pusan, Korea (2002)
- Spodek in Katowice, Poland (1972)
- Supersamsupermarket in Warsaw, Poland (1960)
- Torwar Hallin Warsaw ( 1960)
- Venezuelan Pavilion at Expo 1992 in Seville (Spain) (1992)
- Factory in Mińsk Mazowiecki
- Furniture Factory in Las Vegas
- Monument of the Coast Defenders (Pomnik Obrońców Wybrzeża) in Gdańsk (1966) Monument in honor o the defenders of the Battle of Westerplatte
Bibliography
- Shaping Structures, John Wiley & Sons, New York, ISBN 0471169684, 1998; pp. 416
- Shaping Structures: Statics ISBN 978-0471169680
- Buildings on Slopes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1970
- A simplified procedure for torsional analysis of prismatic members with open section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1971
- Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures ISBN 978-0-470-17465-4
References
- ^ Olga Krzyżyk (2016-12-30). "Zmarł Wacław Zalewski – wybitny konstruktor, który stworzył Spodek i dworzec w Katowicach" (in Polish). Dziennik Zachodni. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
General references
- Sylwetka Wacława Zalewskiego w serwisie architekci.pl
- Nicholas Janber's Structurae, Wacław Zalewski International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering
External links
- Structurae people - Waclaw Zalewski Structurae International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering
- SHAPING STRUCTURES, SHAPING THE FUTURE
- Wacław Zalewski: Shaping Structures
- WACLAW ZALEWSKI Profile MIT School of Architecture + Planning
- [1] Wacław Zalewski Archive