(b Cape Town, 23 June 1933). South African architect, urban planner and teacher. After graduating in architecture at the University of Cape Town (1956), he was an RIBA scholar at the British School in Rome. He then studied (1959–61) with Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, taught at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities and was Chief Planning Designer (1961–3) for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. He returned to practise in Cape Town in 1963. Among his numerous buildings and projects in South Africa, the best known are the Dutch Reformed Church (1964), Welkom, which shows the influence of Louis Kahn’s First Unitarian Church (1959–67), Rochester, NY; the Werdmuller Commercial Centre (1973), Claremont, Cape Town, which is a spatially complex building organized around an internal spiral ramp; the Sports Centre (1977), University of Cape Town; and the Steinkopf Community Centre (1978), Steinkopf, which was published internationally as a leading example of South African late 20th-century architecture (see Beck). Later works include the Sports Complex (1981), University of the Western Cape, Bellville, and the Belhar Community Centre (1981), Cape Town, both of which received Awards of Merit from the Institute of South African Architects. Uytenbogaardt’s work, some of it in association with other architects, shows great formal and spatial skills that reflect the tenets of the Modern Movement and the work of Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn and, to a certain extent, Alvar Aalto. In 1971 Uytenbogaardt was appointed Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town, and he became an influential teacher, grounding urban planning in the act of design.

• Uytenbogaardt, Roelof (Sarel)
  • Cape Town
  • South Africa, §III, 4: Architecture, after 1945