1927-

Bridge engineer. Born in Meiringen, Canton Bern, grew up in Chur. Studied construction engineering at the Federal Institute for Technology in Zurich from 1946-50, where he later taught, and was Professorof Structural Engineering from 1971 to 1992. Regarded as Switzerland's foremost contemporary bridge designer. His work in the US includes the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge over the Charles River in Boston (2002) and the pedestrian bridge over the Washington Road at Princeton University (2004). A traveling exhibition entitled "The Bridges of Christian Menn" was shown in Princeton in 1978.  In 1997 he was awarded the John A Roebling Medal of the Engineer's Society of Western Pennsylvania.