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.