Bruce Martin (architect)
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- Architect
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Bruce Martin | |
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| Born | 20 December 1917 Clapham, London, England |
| Died | 22 April 2015 (aged 97) |
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| Known for | K8 telephone box |
| Spouse |
Barbara Parr
(m. 1949; died 2001) |
| Children | 2 |
Bruce Martin FRIBA (20 December 1917 – 22 April 2015) was a British architect who designed the K8 telephone box.
Martin was born 20 December 1917 in Clapham, south London and was raised in Portsmouth.[1] He studied engineering at the University of Hong Kong, then studied at the University of Cambridge, followed by the Architectural Association School of Architecture (the AA).[2] After graduating from the AA he worked for the Hertfordshire County Council designing schools as part of "the Hertfordshire experiment".[3][4][5] He was job architect for the grade II* listed Morgan's Junior School in Hertford.[2] In 1943 he married fellow architect Barbara Parr.[3][1]
In 1953 he moved to the British Standards Institution, then in the 1960s he began teaching part time at the Cambridge School of Architecture alongside running his own architectural practice.[3] He designed the K8 telephone box, launched in 1968.[3][1]
