Peter Rice was educated at Queen's University of Belfast where he received his primary degree, and spent a year at Imperial College London.
10 Facts About Peter Rice
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Peter Rice originally studied Aeronautical Engineering but switched to Civil Engineering.
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Peter Rice married Sylvia Watson in 1960 and they had one son and three daughters.
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Peter Rice believed the best buildings result from the symbiotic relationship between the architect and the engineer where the engineer is the objective inventor and the architect the creative input.
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Peter Rice found the Anglo Saxon understanding of the work of an engineer restrictive and preferred the French and Italian interpretation of the role.
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Peter Rice became the engineer for the built project which was greatly modified from the initial design.
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Peter Rice brought the concepts of humanity, tactility and scale to the project His team developed the gerberette which enabled the counterbalancing of the weight of the building with light tubing, lightening the external appearance.
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Peter Rice specified that these were to be made in cast steel.
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Peter Rice was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1991 and died the following year aged 57.
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The Peter Rice Prize was established at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1994 in recognition of the ideals and principles represented by the late eminent engineer.