Leslie Martin, Architect, Cambridge, English Works, Design, Projects, Office

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Leslie Martin
1908-99

Key Projects, alphabetical:

Faculty of Music, West Rd, Cambridge
1978-84
Leslie Martin with Colen Lumley & Ivor Richards

Glasgow International Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
1990
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Harvey Court, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, England
1960-62

Leicester University College Hall buildings, England
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with Trevor Dannatt

Own house and studios, converted mill, Great Shelford, England
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William Stone Building, Peterhouse College, Cambridge
1963-64



Practice Information

Leslie Martin - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 1973

Leslie Martin - Background:

Leslie Martin's father was an architect. Martin was born in Manchester and studied at Manchester University School of Architecture, qualifying in 1930 and remaining there as a teacher until 1934 when he became Head of Hull's School of Architecture.

In 1939 Leslie was appointed Principal Assistant Architect to the LMS Railway, occupying the post throughout the War, involved in designing emergency wartime buildings.

Appointed Deputy Architect to the London County Council, he led the team of architects that designed the Royal Festival Hall

in 1953 Leslie Martin succeeded Sir Robert Matthew as LCC Architect.

Leslie Martin was appointed to the first Chair of Architecture at Cambridge in 1956, a position he held until his retirement in 1972.

At the same time, Leslie Martin set up an architectural practice in Cambridge after having first built his own house & studios in a converted mill in Great Shelford. Leslie completed his last building in 1990

Harvey Court was a radical development for Cambridge in the 1960s and probably Leslie Martin's most famous work.

Leslie Martin married Sadie Speight, architect, in 1934. She died in 1992 and he is survived by his son and daughter.

Leslie Martin : Cambridge Architecture

Leslie Martin Honours / Positions:
Knighted: 1957
Received Royal Gold Medal: 1973
Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1956-73
Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1973-99



Key building adjacent to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Buchanan Galleries

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The name of Leslie Martin lives on in the Martin Centre for Architectural Studies, Cambridge

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