Leslie Martin
Sir John Leslie Martin (17 August 1908, in
Life
After studying at
During the Second World War Martin was assigned to the pre-nationalisation Railway companies to supervise re-building of bomb-damaged regional rail stations.[7]
In this capacity Martin developed pre-fabricated designs to speed construction. Following the war he was made a Deputy Architect to the
]From 1956, he was made head of the
Planning work
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Martin was involved initially with Patrick Hodgkinson in the Brunswick Centre, an early experiment in planned mixed-use development in Bloomsbury that was partially completed. The 1950s also saw the creation of the Loughborough Estate in Brixton, south London, designed by Martin.
In the 1960s the British government commissioned Martin to draw plans for a wholesale demolition and redevelopment of the area between
The plans met with determined opposition from the public and conservation groups, especially the
Taking a broader view of Martin's work, a picture emerges of the man as a quiet achiever par excellence. Through his skilled networking in support of promising younger architects, and his self-effacing work on committees, he strongly influenced the course of post-war British architecture. "He was efficient, cooperative, impeccably well networked and calmly authoritative, justifying his advice with his immense architectural expertise and his scientific investigations of planning needs."[10]
Architectural commissions
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Martin with Wilson completed a number of academic buildings including halls of residence Harvey Court for
One of his later projects was an extension to Kettle's Yard Art Gallery to house the works of Dame Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and others.
Martin and his wife, Sadie Speight, were responsible for the modernist house Brackenfell (Grade II listed) in
References
- Carolin, Peter. "Martin, Sir (John) Leslie". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74528. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-02-925000-6, p. 112
- ^ "Reporter 9/8/00: Obituary Notices".
- ^ Hasan-Uddin Khan, International style: modernist architecture from 1925 to 1965, Cologne: Taschen 1998, p. 230
- ^ "Sir Leslie Martin". The Guardian. 2 August 2000. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ "Naum Gabo - bio". Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ J.L. Martin and S. Speight, The Flat Book, London: Heinemann, 1939.
- ^ "Arthur Jackson Hepworth". Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ "Sir Leslie Martin". Telegraph Newspaper. 1 August 2000. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ "Oxford Slade Professors, 1870–present" (PDF). University of Oxford. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ISBN 9780434022441.
- ^ Campbell, L. "Constructivism and contexualism in a modern country house: the design of Brackenfell (Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight, 1937–8)", Architectural History, vol. 50 (2006), pp. 247–266
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