BUCK, Reginald Charles G

Architect

CertArch (Natal), ISAA, NIA.

In 1954 Reginald Charles BUCK and Bernard WHITEHEAD formed the practice BUCK and WHITEHEAD, [recorded in 1959 as of address 49 Trust building, Gadiner street, Durban Natal, a practice] which left its imprint most forcibly on the uppermost end of North Beach with Bel-Aire apartment block (1956), characterised by its faceted plan and mosaic bands inspired by Zulu beadwork, and Blue Waters Hotel (1969). [In 1969 the practice is of the same address]. Later followed, both in collaboration, Edgewood Teachers' Training College (1960s), now UKZN Edgewood campus, and the Westville Prison (1970s). Reg was an exact contemporary of Gordon SMALL (1927-1995) with whom he studied, and besides practice, was a soccer player and a coach of note, as well as a ballroom dancer. Like Gordon, he was a 'larger than life' character, remembered by many.

(Obituary, Neil HAYES-HILL, KZNIA Journal. Vol. 39, Issue 2, 2014)

(Obituary submitted by Karlien van Niekerk, Senior Technical Assistant, Pretoria School of Architecture)

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

References

ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 88, 219

ISAA. 1969. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1968-1969 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1968-1969. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 90, 179