Excerpt:
Othmar Hermann Ammann, partner of the firm Ammann & Whitney, Consulting Engineers, New York, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, died at his home in Rye, New York, on September 22, 1965, at the age of eighty-six. His passing brought to a close an active, sixty-three-year engineering career during which he came to be known as the "master bridge builder of our time."
Annotation:
This ten-page excerpt from Thomas A. Kavanagh's 1979 book "Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 1" includes three pages detailing the career of Ammann, including short sections on each of his major bridge projects. Kavanagh does not cover his subject's life in much detail, but his overview provides a useful impression of the impact that Ammann's designs had on the architectural world.