R. S. Uytenbogaardt

Roelof Sarel Uytenbogaardt (23 June 1933 – 22 June 1998) was a South African architect and urban designer. He was the dean and deputy dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Uytenbogaardt designed brutalist and modernist buildings in Cape Town and the surrounding cities and towns during his career.

Early life and education Uytenbogaardt was born on 23 June 1933 in Cape Town in what was then the Cape Province of the Union of South Africa. He matriculated from Voortrekker High School in Wynberg. Between 1955 and 1956, he worked as an assistant to the architects Koppel Brown in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia, where he worked on an African market as well as House Hepworth. He designed the Hugo van Zyl retail store in Paarl, which received the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects (CPIA) Bronze Medal in 1964.

Death Uytenbogaardt died on 22 June 1998, shortly after receiving the gold medal for Architecture award by the South African Institute of Architects.

Awards and accolades Uytenbogaardt received many awards for his architectural work, among them: Sophia Gray Laureate (1990) Gold Medal for Architecture - South African Institute of Architecture (1998) Medal of Honour for Architecture - Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (1998, posthumously)