"Projektowanie i realizacja form powłokowych jest problemem złożony", opined the Polish architect Witold Lipiński in 1978, "design and implementation of shell structures is a complex problem". And it certainly is. For all a complex mathematical problem, and that of a degree that, for Lipiński, for all when combined with the associated technical challenges, "greatly limit[s] plastic ingenuity", meaning as it did that architects were invariably restricted to forms "mathematically defined in a
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