Carol Ross Barney Explained

Carol Ross Barney
Birth Date:[1]
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alma Mater:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.Arch., 1971), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.Arch., 1984)
Practice:Ross Barney Architects
Awards:2023 AIA Gold Medal
2021 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award for Architecture and Interior Design
2021 Lincoln Academy of Illinois Order of Lincoln Award
2018 Honorary ASLA Member
2017 AIA Chicago Lifetime Achievement Award
2013 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Project Award
2013 AIA Divine Detail Award, Citation of Merit
Significant Projects:New Oklahoma City Federal Building, Chicago Riverwalk

Carol Ross Barney (born 1949) is an American architect and the founder and Design Principal of Ross Barney Architects. She is the 2023 winner of the AIA Gold Medal.[2] [3] She became the first woman to design a federal building[4] when commissioned as architect for the Oklahoma City Federal Building, which replaced the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Ross Barney's other projects include the JRC Synagogue (LEED Platinum), James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building, (LEED Gold) the CTA Morgan Street Station,[5] [6] and the Chicago Riverwalk.

Biography

Carol Ross Barney was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 12, 1949. She began her education in the Chicago Public Schools. In 1958, her father, an accountant and management consultant, was relocated to Düsseldorf in the British sector of West Germany. Returning to the Chicago area for high school, Carol was educated at the all-girls Catholic school, Regina Dominican, in Wilmette.[7] She enrolled in the Architecture program at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1971. She returned and completed her Master's of Architecture in 1984.[7]

Barney enlisted in the U.S. Peace Corps immediately after graduation and was assigned to Costa Rica where she worked for the fledgling Costa Rican National Park Service. Her projects included a master plan for coral reef protection and interpretation at Parque Nacional Cahuita, restoration of the historic hacienda at Parque Nacional Santa Rosa and worker housing at Parque Nacional Volcan Poas.[7]

Following Peace Corps service, Barney joined Holabird and Root in Chicago and met her mentor, John A. Holabird, FAIA. The work there ranged from the 1979 AIA Institute Honor Award-winning restoration of the Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center to improvements for the Chicago Main Post Office.

In 1973, Carol was a founding member of Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA) and served as CWA's first president.[8] In 1988, while serving in the national AIA Women in Architecture Committee, she was advisor for two related AIA Exhibitions “That Exceptional One” and “Many More”, ground breaking explorations about women architects. CWA brought Barney together with Natalie deBlois, FAIA of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, who remained a close friend until Natalie's death in 2013.[9]

In 1981, Barney started a solo practice in Chicago. Her college classmate, James Jankowski, FAIA, joined her from 1982-2005 and from 1984-2006 the firm was Ross Barney + Jankowski. Barney was awarded the 1983 Francis J. Plym Traveling Fellowship from the University of Illinois. The fellowship funded travel for research and allowed her to study the post war planning and rebuilding of European cities during 1983–84.[10]

In 2001, construction began for the new Oklahoma City Federal Building, with Barney chosen as the lead designer for the replacement building for the Oklahoma City Federal Building[11] following the terrorist bombing in 1995.[12] The new Oklahoma City Federal Building had the design objective to create a space that was secure but open to reflect the United States democracy.

Barney has combined her own teaching with practice in 1976, when she taught at the University of Illinois Chicago. Since 1994, she has been adjunct Professor of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology where she teaches a popular advanced design studio and serves on the College of Architecture Board of Overseers.[13]

Through her firm Ross Barney Architects, Carol has designed numerous projects for which she has received several accolades. In 2005, Carol was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award[14] from the AIA for her distinguished portfolio of public buildings. One of her most recent projects, the expansion of the Chicago Riverwalk, received over seven different awards, including the 2017 Blue Ribbon Award – Friends of the Chicago River.[15] For this project, along with her extensive accomplishments, Carol was awarded the AIA Chicago Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.[16]

Carol continues to oversee design projects through her firm, Ross Barney Architects.

Awards and honors

Carol is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Her drawings have also been exhibited and collected by the Art Institute of Chicago,[39] the Chicago Historical Society, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the National Building Museum. In addition, her oral history has been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago.[40]

Selected works

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carol Ross Barney (b.1949). The Art Institute of Chicago. 3 July 2013.
  2. Web site: Edward . Keegan. Carol Ross Barney Wins 2023 AIA Gold Medal . Architect . December 7, 2022 . December 7, 2022.
  3. Web site: Edward . Keegan. Carol Ross Barney wins one of architecture's top prizes . Crain's Chicago Business. December 7, 2022 . December 7, 2022.
  4. Steen. Karen. Hail to the Chief. Metropolis Magazine. January 2002. 1–2. 2013-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305122225/http://www.karensteen.com/EdFeiner.pdf. 2016-03-05. dead.
  5. Gerfen. Katie. CTA Morgan Street Station. Architect Magazine. April 2013. 114–119.
  6. Infrastructure of Hope. Architect Magazine. April 2013. Cover Page. 26 June 2013.
  7. Web site: Riverwalk architect learned environmental lessons early, in Peace Corps. Ally. Marotti. . 2 December 2016 .
  8. Web site: Women architects build network (December 26, 1984). 9 February 2024 .
  9. News: Kamin . Blair . Natalie de Blois, pioneering architect at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill . 13 March 2020 . Chicago Tribune . Chicago Tribune . 30 July 2013.
  10. Web site: The Francis J. Plym Traveling Fellowship in Architecture . 13 March 2020.
  11. Web site: OKC. Cover . 13 March 2020 . 10 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210310165727/https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/Oklahoma_City_Federal_Building__Oklahoma_City__OK.pdf . dead .
  12. News: The New York Times. Kent. Cheryl. August 22, 1999. A Safer Federal Building for Oklahoma City. 148. 51622. 34 (Section 2).
  13. Web site: IIT College of Architecture. 2013-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20140525044437/http://www.iit.edu/arch/people/overseers.shtml. 2014-05-25. dead.
  14. Web site: Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture.
  15. Web site: River Sensitive Projects Win Chicago River Blue Awards. Friends of the Chicago River.
  16. Web site: A Lifetime of the Achievement for the "People's Architect". AIA Chicago.
  17. Web site: 2021 National Design Awards. 30 August 2021 . Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 2 December 2021.
  18. Web site: Gov. Pritzker Announces 2021 Recipients of the Order of Lincoln State's Highest Honor Recognizes Excellence in Professional Work, Public Service. 21 September 2021 . The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. 2 December 2021.
  19. Web site: The World's Most Innovative Companies Honorees by Sector. Fast Companies and Incorporated. 13 March 2020.
  20. Web site: 14th Annual Emerald Award Winners Announced. Illinois Green: A USGBC Community. 13 March 2020.
  21. Web site: SAH Awards Gala 2019. Society of Architectural Historians. 22 April 2020.
  22. Web site: ASLA Announces 2018 Honors Recipients. ASLA. 9 March 2020.
  23. Web site: Carol Ross Barney is Chicago's New Daniel Burnham. Metropolis Magazine. 9 March 2020.
  24. Web site: A Lifetime of the Achievement for "The People's Architect". AIA Chicago. 9 March 2020.
  25. Web site: 2017 Chicagoans of the Year: The River Queen. Chicago Magazine/Chicago Tribune Media Group. 22 April 2020.
  26. Web site: Vision Award Winners History. Urban Land Institute Chicago. 13 March 2020.
  27. Web site: Swenson Civil Engineering Building. The American Institute of Architects. 27 June 2013.
  28. Web site: Chicago Riverwalk - Underbridge Canopy Detail, Divine Detail Award, Citation of Merit. AIA Chicago. 27 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140226141917/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2012DEA/awards.asp?appId=707. 2014-02-26. dead.
  29. Web site: CTA - Morgan Station, Distinguished Building Award, Citation of Merit. AIA Chicago. 27 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140226142850/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2012DEA/awards.asp?appId=523. 2014-02-26. dead.
  30. Fields. KJ. James I. Swenson Civil Engineering Building at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Eco Building Pulse. 17 Oct 2012. 27 June 2013.
  31. Web site: 20212 American Architecture Awards. The Chicago Athenaeum and Metropolitan Arts. 13 March 2020.
  32. Web site: James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building, Distinguished Building Award, Honor Award. AIA Chicago. 27 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130509050140/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2011DEA/awards.asp?appId=184. 2013-05-09. dead.
  33. Web site: Fullerton and Belmont Stations Reconstruction, Distinguished Building Award, Citation of Merit. AIA Chicago. 27 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130509044417/http://www.aiachicago.org/special_features/2011DEA/awards.asp?appId=326. 2013-05-09. dead.
  34. Web site: Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation. The American Institute of Architects. 27 June 2013.
  35. Web site: World Architecture Festival 2009 - Category Commendation. World Building Directory. 27 June 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131105202326/http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/project.cfm?id=1675. 5 November 2013.
  36. Web site: Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design—AIA Honor Awards 2002 . Architecture Week . Artifice, Inc. . 13 March 2020.
  37. Gapp. Paul. Awards In Architecture Won By 3 Chicago Firms. Chicago Tribune. 7 Feb 1991. 27 June 2013.
  38. News: Forgey . Benjamin . Architects Lauded . 13 March 2020 . The Washington Post .
  39. Web site: Drawing Collection of Ross Barney + Jankowski Architects. the Art Institute of Chicago. 27 June 2013.
  40. Web site: Chicago Architects Oral History Project. The Art Institute of Chicago. 27 June 2013.

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