Zygmunt Stanisław Makowski: A pioneer of space structures

Gerard Parke, Seyed Alireza Behnejad

doi:10.5277/arc140403

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present information about the life, personality and the contributions of Professor Zygmunt Stanisław Makowski (1922–2005) as a pioneer in the field of Spatial Structures. He was the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, for 22 years (from 1962 to 1984). Professor Makowski also created the Space Structures Research Centre of the University of Surrey in May 1963, and the work of this Centre, over the years, has won a great deal of international recognition.