Norman Collings Fletcher (December 8, 1917 – May 31, 2007) was an American

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who was a co-founder and partner of the architectural firm

The Architects Collaborative The Architects Collaborative (TAC) was an American architectural firm formed by eight architects that operated between 1945 to 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The founding members were Norman C. Fletcher (1917-2007), Jean B. Fletcher (1915-196 ...

(TAC), working there from 1945 until the firm's demise in 1995. His wife was

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. Fletcher was born in

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. He attended the

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in 1940, and in the same year joined the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. In 1943, he worked for the firm

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until leaving them in 1944 to work for another firm, Saarinen, Swanson, & Associates. In 1945, he joined forces with

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and several other architects to establish

(TAC). He and Gropius worked on many projects together, notably the Boston Back Bay Center (1953) and Hua Tung University (1948). Neither project was ever built. From 1963 to 1965, he was the vice president of the

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. In 1970, he was elected into the

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as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. Norman Fletcher lived in a residential development called

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, which was designed by TAC.

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