Bruce Martin (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.
Biography
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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]
Publications
[edit]- Martin, Bruce (1952). School Buildings, 1945-1951. C. Lockwood.
- —————— (1977). Joints in Buildings. London: George Godwin Limited. ISBN 978-0-470-99106-0.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Saint, Andrew (27 May 2015). "Bruce Martin". The Guardian. p. 35. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ a b Wright, Jon (3 May 2007). "The K8 Kiosk – Last of the Great Red Boxes". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Bruce Martin, architect - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "MARTIN, Bruce (b 1917)". AIM25. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Bruce Martin (1917-2015)". Architectural Association School of Architecture. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- Croft, Catherine (31 January 2008). "Finding Bruce Martin". Architects' Journal. Vol. 227, no. 4. pp. 45–47. ISSN 0003-8466. ProQuest 200765598.
- Mark, Laura (29 May 2015). "Obituary: Bruce Martin (1917 – 2015)". Architects' Journal. ISSN 0003-8466.
- "Bruce Martin". The Times. 27 June 2015. ISSN 0140-0460.
- Linge, Nigel; Sutton, Andy; Hurley, Andrew; Johannessen, Neil (2 July 2020). "In Celebration of the K8 Telephone Kiosk – Britain's Last Red, Cast-Iron Phonebox". Industrial Archaeology Review. 42 (2): 141–153. doi:10.1080/03090728.2020.1812026. ISSN 0309-0728. S2CID 226035231.
