Carol Ross Barney
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| Born | 1949 Chicago, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.Arch., 1971), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.Arch., 1984) |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | 1992 Federal Design Achievement Award through the Presidential Design Awards program, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, 2009 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Project Award, 2013 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Project Award, 2005 AIA Thomas Jefferson Award |
| Practice | Ross Barney Architects |
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA (born 1949) is a Chicago architect, principal designer at Ross Barney Architects. She became the first woman to design a federal building 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) and the CTA Morgan Street Station.
Carol Ross Barney was born in Chicago, 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 in an all-girls Catholic school. She enrolled in the Architecture program at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1971.
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.
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