Join AIA Gold Medal recipient Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, Design Principal and Founder of Ross Barney Architects, for an evening in conversation with Reed Kroloff, Dean and Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair, IIT College of Architecture.
Dive into an architectural career devoted to people, places and cities, celebrated in the new book, The People’s Architect. A widely admired urbanist, mentor and educator, Carol advocates for excellent design accessible to all—as a right rather than a privilege. Encompassing new schools, libraries, transit stations and parks, including city-defining projects like the Chicago Riverwalk, her practice showcases a belief in the transformative power of the built environment in our daily lives. In an age of diminishing investment in and care for our shared public realm, Carol’s work reminds us of the catalytic power of beautifully designed infrastructure and civic spaces.
Pre-signed copies of The People’s Architect are available for purchase at the CAC Design Store or online. Get your copy personally inscribed by Carol at the conclusion of the program.
Guests are invited to a reception with light bites and refreshments at 5:00 p.m. outside the lecture hall. The program starts at 6:00 p.m.
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Speakers:
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, HASLA, the 2023 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal recipient, is an architect, urbanist, mentor, and educator, and has relentlessly advocated that excellent design is a right, not a privilege. Dedicated to design of public spaces, her exploration into the power of how the built environment can improve our daily lives has produced distinctive structures and places that have become cultural icons.
Notable projects include design of the new Oklahoma City Federal Building replacing the bombed Murrah Federal Building for the GSA; Chicago Riverwalk; McDonald’s Chicago and Disney World Flagship Restaurants; Searle Visitor Center at the Lincoln Park Zoo; JRC Synagogue; CTA Cermak and Morgan Street Stations; UMD Civil Engineering Building; Multi-Modal Terminal at O’Hare International Airport; NASA Aerospace Communications Facility; Railyard Park in Rogers, AR; and Chicago’s new DuSable Park.
Honors include over 200 major design awards, including the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Award; fourteen National AIA Honor Awards for Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design; two AIA Committee on the Environment, Top Ten Project Awards for sustainably designed buildings; and over 45 AIA Chicago Awards. Carol is a graduate of the University of Illinois and served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica planning national parks. She has taught an advanced Design Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology for over thirty years.
Reed Kroloff is dean of Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture. In a career spanning more than 25 years, he has also been: editor-in-chief of Architecture, which under his direction became the nation's leading architectural magazine; dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture, which he led through Hurricane Katrina and the following recovery; and director of the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum. A regular national commentator on architecture and design, Kroloff has authored writing that has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Esquire, and Metropolis. He has also appeared in a number of television programs for suchnetworks as PBS and the Sundance Channel. He is a partner of jones|kroloff, with clients who have included the High Line in New York City, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, the federal government of Mexico, and dozens more. He is a Rome Prize recipient, and his work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale. He has degrees from Yale University and the University of Texas at Austin.
Searl Visitors Center at Lincoln Park Zoo. Photo by Kendall McCaugherty, Hall+Merrick Photographers
Cermak-McCormick CTA Station. Photo by Kate Joyce Studios.
Morgan CTA Station. Photo by Kate Joyce Studios
Railyard Park, Rogers, AR. Photo by Kate Joyce Studios
