Books by Aleks Svirydzenka
Sculptor, designer and builder of themed worlds since 2008
Three books from one conviction: a place is judged twice — on opening day, with the eyes, and years later, by rain, frost, sun, cleaning and thousands of hands and feet. They are written for the people who decide what gets built: owners and operators, zoo professionals, architects, designers, engineers, contractors, students — and for everyone who lives with what is built.
The Truth About Artificial Rockwork
Not a book about fake rock, but about the distance between how things look and what they really are. Second, revised and expanded edition.
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Building Worlds
A step-by-step professional textbook for universities, architects, designers and creators of immersive environments — from concept to final result.
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Small Living World
How to turn what science knows about an animal's life into real decisions: brief, budget, barrier, ground, water and the rock the animal lives on every day.
Discover the book →Beautiful things should not need to lie.The Truth About Artificial Rockwork
Truth for the one who lives there. Conviction for the one who looks.
See through the surface
The Truth About Artificial Rockwork teaches clients and professionals to tell real quality from a convincing illusion — before they sign and long after opening day.
Learn the discipline
Building Worlds turns the craft of immersive environments into a teachable profession: understand, design, build, execute, improve.
Build for the living
Small Living World shows how what science knows about animals becomes the brief, the budget and the rock an animal lives on every day.
Aleks Svirydzenka
Aleks Svirydzenka is a sculptor, designer and artist, and the founder of Artisan Aleks Company in Poland. He chose his profession as a child and has stayed true to it. His education spans art, engineering, law and economics – but what matters most to him is one thing: creating.
Since 2008 he has designed and built artificial rock, sculptures, themed façades, caves and water features for leisure parks, zoos, hotels, restaurants and cities. He works where art meets engineering: on the scaffold, with shotcrete, steel and paint – and with clients who want to know why one illusion lasts for decades while another falls apart.
His aim is to create places that serve people and animals for years – not only impress on opening day.
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