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Bruce Martin

FRIBA
Born(1917-12-20)20 December 1917
Clapham, London, England
Died22 April 2015(2015-04-22) (aged 97)
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Architect
  • Designer
Employers
Known forK8 telephone box
Spouse
Barbara Parr
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(m. 1949; died 2001)​
Children2

Bruce Martin FRIBA (20 December 1917 – 22 April 2015) was a British architect who designed the K8 telephone box.

Biography

Photo of a red K8 telephone box
A K8 telephone box in Amersham station

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]

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References

  1. ^ a b c Saint, Andrew (27 May 2015). "Bruce Martin". The Guardian. p. 35. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b Wright, Jon (3 May 2007). "The K8 Kiosk – Last of the Great Red Boxes". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d "Bruce Martin, architect - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  4. ^ "MARTIN, Bruce (b 1917)". AIM25. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Bruce Martin (1917-2015)". Architectural Association School of Architecture. Retrieved 14 September 2023.

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