[1][2] Throughout his career, he was involved with the production of commercial, landscape and urban planning projects, but much of his work was residential, including the design of more than 80 family homes around the north shore and northern beaches of Sydney.
[2] He grew up with his family, including his siblings, at their 5 acre property in Turramurra, who then moved to a small flat in Roseville during World War II.
[1][5] In 1967, together with Harry Howard and Allan Correy, he became a founding member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
[citation needed] 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.
[1] Rickard died at the Sacred Heart Hospice in St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney on 22 September 2010 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.