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Leslie Martin (John Leslie Martin) was born on 17 August, 1908 in Manchester, is an English architect. Discover Leslie Martin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 17 August, 1908
Birthday 17 August
Birthplace Manchester
Date of death 28 July, 2000
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Nationality Manchester

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1908

Sir John Leslie Martin (17 August 1908, in Manchester – 28 July 2000) was an English architect, and a leading advocate of the International Style.

Martin's most famous building is the Royal Festival Hall.

His work was especially influenced by Alvar Aalto.

After studying at Manchester University, Leslie Martin taught at the University of Hull.

1936

Designed in 1936 and completed in 1938 for textile designer and artist Alastair Morton, of Edinburgh Weavers.

The interior colour scheme was reputedly designed by Ben Nicholson who lived locally when married to Winifred Roberts.

Brackenfell is still a private house.

1937

In 1937 he co-edited with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo the journal Circle, which reviewed avant-garde abstract art and architecture.

1939

In 1939 Martin and his wife, Sadie Speight, co-wrote The flat book.

During the Second World War Martin was assigned to the pre-nationalisation Railway companies to supervise re-building of bomb-damaged regional rail stations.

In this capacity Martin developed pre-fabricated designs to speed construction.

1948

Following the war he was made a Deputy Architect to the London County Council (LCC), and in 1948 Hugh Casson selected him to lead the design team for the Royal Festival Hall, the most prestigious building project of the Festival of Britain.

1950

The 1950s also saw the creation of the Loughborough Estate in Brixton, south London, designed by Martin.

1953

Partly in recognition of his achievement, Martin was made Chief Architect of the LCC in 1953; he used his position to promote emerging younger architects Colin St. John Wilson, James Stirling, and Alison and Peter Smithson.

1956

From 1956, he was made head of the Architecture School at Cambridge University where Colin St John Wilson was his assistant.

1960

In the 1960s the British government commissioned Martin to draw plans for a wholesale demolition and redevelopment of the area between St James's Park and the Thames Embankment in London.

It would have involved the demolition of most of the Victorian and Edwardian government offices (the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Office, the old Home Office, etc.) in Whitehall, which were then scheduled for demolition, and left the Banqueting Hall as a traffic island and the original Scotland Yard building enveloped in the middle of a courtyard of offices.

The plans met with determined opposition from the public and conservation groups, especially the Victorian Society, and their implementation was delayed.

1965

He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 1965–66.

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.

1971

Edward Heath's government eventually formally abandoned Martin's plan in 1971.

The existing buildings were subsequently restored and opened to the public.

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."

Martin with Wilson completed a number of academic buildings including halls of residence Harvey Court for Gonville and Caius College, one of the most important examples of brick brutalism, and the William Stone Building for Peterhouse; and the Tinbergen Building and the St. Cross faculty libraries for Oxford University.

Martin was also the masterplanner for Leicester University.

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 Brampton, Cumbria.