Revel Fox

Revel Albert Ellis Fox (20 September 1924 – 13 December 2004) was a South African avant-garde architect. Founder of Revel Fox and Partners.

From 1960 to 1963 he was listed as an assistant lecturer in the staff registers of the University of Cape Town. He obtained the degree of master of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Cape Town in 1969. From 1973 to 1975 Fox was the president of the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects, 1998 and 1999 he served as Chair of the Council of the University of Cape Town. Revel Fox had been a member of Advisory Board of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town.

Fox was known for opposing the apartheid regime and he was invited to join the delegation which went to Dakar in 1987 to meet with representatives of the then exiled African National Congress.

Awards Gold Medal Award from the Institute of South African Architects, 1977.

Books Fox, Revel, Fox, Justin & Kotze, Paul. 1998. Revel Fox: reflections on the making of space. Cape Town: Rustica Press.