Howard T. and Marion Hall Fisher research files for Life in Mexico and Frances Calderón de la Barca, Life in Five Countries
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Fisher, Howard T. (Howard Taylor), 1903-1979
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Howard T. Fisher (1903–1979) was an architect, city planner, and educator. Howard Taylor Fisher was born October 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were Walter Lowrie Fisher and Mabel Taylor. He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in 1926. He attended the School of Architecture, Harvard University, from 1926 to 1928. Fisher started his career as an architect in 1931 with a solo practice in Chicago, which continued until 1943. In 1932, he founde...
Fisher, Marion Hall
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Before her marriage, Marion Hall worked for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Her future husband, Howard T. Fisher, was an architect and later the founder of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. When Marion and Howard married in 1939, they each had previously read and relished Frances Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico, published in 1843. As a hobby that enriched their frequent visits to Mexico over a period of a quarter-century, the Fishers...
