Bruce Martin (architect)

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).

[3][4][5] He was job architect for the grade II* listed Morgan's Junior School in Hertford.

[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.

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