Bruce Rickard

Career After spending several years in America, Rickard returned to Australia in 1957 where he lectured in landscape architecture in Denis Winston's Town Planning course at the University of Sydney while setting up his architectural firm – Bruce Rickard and Associates, Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Architects.

In 1967, together with Harry Howard and Allan Correy, he became a founding member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.

Throughout his career, Rickard designed more than 80 houses, mainly single-family dwellings, as well as car washes, a drive-in restaurant, a church, several schools, several project homes, medium-density housing developments and coastal town developments.

Death Rickard died at the Sacred Heart Hospice in St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney on 22 September 2010 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.