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

United States

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 architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 who was a co-founder and partner of the architectural firm The Architects' Collaborative

The Architects' Collaborative

The Architects' Collaborative was an American architectural firm formed by Walter Gropius and seven younger architects in 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The other partners were Norman C. Fletcher , Jean B. Fletcher , John C. Harkness , Sarah P. Harkness , Robert S...

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

Jean B. Fletcher

Jean Bodman Fletcher was an American architect who was a founding member of the Architects' Collaborative. She graduated from Smith College in 1937, and finished her architectural training at the Cambridge School in 1941, an architecture school for women affilitated with Harvard University and...

.

Fletcher was born in Providence

Providence, Rhode Island

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, Rhode Island

Rhode Island

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. He attended the Yale University

Yale University

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 School of Architecture in 1940, and in the same year joined the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. In 1943, he worked for the firm Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill until leaving them in 1944 to work for another firm, Saarinen, Swanson, & Associates. In 1945, he joined forces with Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....

 and several other architects to established The Architects Collaborative(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 1963-1965 he was the vice president of the Boston Society of Architects.

Norman Fletcher lived in a residential development called Six Moon Hill

Six Moon Hill

Six Moon Hill is a residential community dwelling that was designed by The Architects' Collaborative and is located in Lexington, Massachusetts....

 in Lexington, Massachusetts

Lexington, Massachusetts

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, which was designed by TAC.