Carol Ross Barney, FAIA
Ross Barney Associates
Noble Failure/Buried Victory
Monday, October 12, 2009
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Max Abramovitz Distinguished Lecture
CAROL ROSS BARNEY, FAIA is founder and
President of Ross Barney + Jankowski. She is responsible for the
design excellence of all projects undertaken by the firm.
Dedicated to improving the built environment, her work has an
international reputation in design of institutional and public
buildings. Her work has been published in national and
international journals, books and newspapers. The work has been
awarded with numerous honors including 4 Institute Honor Awards
from the American Institute of Architects. Her drawings have
been widely exhibited and collected by the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Chicago Historical Society, The Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago and the National Building Museum.
Recent commissions include the new United States Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the United States Border Station in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan, a new laboratory building for the University of Minnesota at Duluth and reconstruction of two of Chicago’s most heavily used transit stations at Fullerton and Belmont Avenues.
Ross Barney is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Following graduation, she served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica planning national parks. She has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Oklahoma (Goff Chair for Creative Architecture) and the Illinois Institute of Technology where she serves on the College Board of Overseers.
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Lecture Committee: Stewart Hicks Erik Hemingway Julie Larsen John Senseney
