Leslie Martin

Sir John Leslie Martin KBE ( born August 17, 1908 in Manchester, † 28 July 2000) was an English architect, and representatives of the so-called International Style.

Life

After studying at the University of Manchester, Leslie Martin taught at the University of Hull. In 1937 he was with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo out the magazine Circle; this journal -reviewed abstract avant-garde art and architecture.

In 1948 Hugh Casson chose him in order to build a team of designers Royal Festival Hall in London; This project was part of the prestigious construction project Festival of Britain. In 1950, Martin was also responsible for the design of the Loughborough Estate in Brixton, south London.

In 1956, Martin was Head of the Architecture School at the University of Cambridge, and Colin St. John Wilson was his assistant. Martin and Wilson planned a number of academic buildings in Cambridge: the student dormitory Harvey Court for Gonville and Caius College, the William Stone Building for Peterhouse, and the Pendlebury Library of Music; Oxford: St Cross faculty libraries, at St. Cross Road, for the Oxford University. One of his later construction projects was the extension of Kettle's Yard art gallery.