• Source: Bruce Martin (architect)

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


      Biography



      Martin was born 20 December 1917 in Clapham, south London and was raised in Portsmouth. 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). After graduating from the AA he worked for the Hertfordshire County Council designing schools as part of "the Hertfordshire experiment". He was job architect for the grade II* listed Morgan's Junior School in Hertford. In 1943 he married fellow architect Barbara Parr.
      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. He designed the K8 telephone box, launched in 1968.


      Publications


      Martin, Bruce (1952). School Buildings, 1945-1951. C. Lockwood.
      —————— (1977). Joints in Buildings. London: George Godwin Limited. ISBN 978-0-470-99106-0.


      References




      Further reading


      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.

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