Given the question: Facts: - awards: 1992 awards program , sponsored by the national endowment for the federal arts , -lsb- http://www.aiatopten.org/taxonomy/term/4 2009 aia cote top ten green design project award -rsb- , -lsb- http://www.aiatopten.org/taxonomy/term/8 2013 aia cote top achievement ten green project award -rsb- , 2005 aia thomas jefferson award award through the presidential design - birth date: 1949 - name: carol ross barney - practice: ross barney architects - image: carol ross barney.jpg - birth place: chicago , usa - alma mater: university -rrb- , university of illinois at urbana-champaign -lrb- m.arch. , of 1984 -rrb- illinois at urbana-champaign -lrb- b.arch. , 1971 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of carol ross barney .
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carol ross barney , faia -lrb- born 1949 -rrb- 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 -lrb- leed platinum -rrb- , james i swenson civil engineering building -lrb- leed gold -rrb- and the cta morgan street station .she has developed a keen understanding of the special needs of institutional and public clients which has produced distinctive structures that have become cultural icons .carol often states that '' public architecture is the soul of my practice .good design distinguishes a democratic society as a right , not a privilege .architecture is an integral component of life quality from healthy work/live spaces to urban scale infrastructure systems '' .