He was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's first apprentices in the Taliesin Fellowship, beginning the year it opened, 1932.
He became the chief draftsman in 1937 during construction of Fallingwater[1] by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Howe was a conscientious objector during World War II and was placed in a Civilian Public Service (CPS) camp in Sandstone, Minnesota from 1943 to 1946 after which he returned to Taliesin.
He left in 1964 to work with Aaron Green, another former Wright apprentice who was a practicing architect in California.
He decided to move to Minnesota and establish his architecture practice in Minneapolis.