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

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, south London and was raised in

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. He studied engineering at the

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, then studied at the

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, followed by the

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(the AA). After graduating from the AA he worked for the

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designing schools as part of "the Hertfordshire experiment". He was job architect for the

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Morgan's Junior School in

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. In 1943 he married fellow architect Barbara Parr. In 1953 he moved to the

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, 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.

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