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The Architect and Designer Bruce Martin passed away last month, aged 97.

Martin who graduated from the AA in 1946 with an AA Diploma with Honours was part of a team of post-war architects who designed pre-fabricated schools in Hertfordshire which included Mary Crowley, A.R. Garrod, W.D. Lacey, David Medd, Oliver Carey, Anthony Cox and WA Henderson.

He also designed the iconic 1968 K8 Telephone box, picture, of which 11,000 were installed across the country and 54 remain.

An oral history of Martin and his time at the AA was recorded in a conversation with Ed Bottoms (AA Archive) and Paffard Keating Clay (AA Dipl 1949) for the AAir radio station in 2009 - listen here radio.aaschool.ac.uk/thinking-about-a-new-world/

Martin is survived by his children Susan and Jonathan.

The Guardian Obituary

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/27/bruce-martin

Architect's Journal Obituary

architectsjournal.co.uk/news/obituary-bruce-martin-1917-2015/