Bruce Martin

Bruce Martin studied at Architectural Association School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and University of Hong Kong. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Hertfordshire County Council, BSI Group and University of Cambridge. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

• Name — Bruce Martin • Honorific Suffix — FRIBA • Born — 20 December 1917 • Birthplace — Clapham, London, England • Died — 22 April 2015 • Education — * University of Hong Kong • University of Cambridge (MA) • Architectural Association School of Architecture (AADipl) • Occupation — * Architect • Designer • Employer — * Hertfordshire County Council • British Standards Institution • Cambridge School of Architecture • Known for — K8 telephone box • Children — 2 Bruce Martin FRIBA (20 December 1917 – 22 April 2015) was a British architect who designed the K8 telephone box.

• Illustration — A K8 telephone box in Amersham station 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", which was a large scale building programme designed to produce more schools for the county. He was job architect for the grade II* listed Morgan's Junior School in Hertford. 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.

In 1943 Martin married fellow architect Barbara Parr.