Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Kenneth Zimmerman, who earned a degree in architectural engineering from Texas A&M University in 1934 and went on to create the structural design of the Astrodome and other Houston landmarks, died in a nursing home in Houston Dec. 17 at age 95.
"Zimmerman had an intuitive understanding of structures, so he knew how to design them," said Narendra Gosain, senior principal and executive director of Walter P. Moore's Structural Diagnostics group; Moore worked at the Moore firm after World War II until retiring in 1982.
During his years with Moore, he also created structural designs for Houston’s Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts and Rice Stadium. He also worked on C.E. “Pat” Olsen Field on the Texas A&M campus as well as notable Houston buildings such as the Warwick Hotel, the Bates-Freeman building at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church.
Zimmerman’s obituary is available on the Houston Chronicle Website at http://www.chron.com/.
