In 2014 he celebrated the 150th anniversary of the abolition of Poland's feudal system by erecting a rainbow-coloured triumphal arch outside a neighbour's home.
Hungary has been less welcoming, determined to hold back the tide by erecting barriers along Serbia and Croatia to protect the European Union's borders.
Forcing homeowners to shoulder more of the costs of flooding should encourage them to invest in precautions and discourage builders from erecting houses in risky areas.
East German construction workers flanked by soldiers and police began tearing up streets and erecting barriers throughout the city of Berlin and its surroundings.
To restrain the thirsty crowd, they had been obliged to imitate the practice followed at theatres and railway-stations, by erecting a barrier draped with velvet.
Many are, quite frankly, already busy finding meaning in the American creed, creating new possibilities and erecting work-arounds with the ingenuity and grit that have sustained them thus far.
If hadn't been freed by tugboats, experts spoke of unloading the ship by erecting giant cranes or using helicopters while other ships would detour all the way around Africa.
From Austria: For the first time, engineers executed a new bridge-building technique with two vertical girders, erecting them upward before unfurling the span like an umbrella.
In Boden, a town near the Arctic Circle, a startup called h2 Green Steel (h2gs) is erecting a €4bn ($4bn) new mill, Europe's first in nearly half a century.
在靠近北极圈的小镇博登,一家名为 h2 Green Steel (h2gs) 的初创公司正在建造一座耗资 40 亿欧元(40 亿美元)的新钢厂, 这是欧洲近半个世纪以来的第一家。