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 '' .