The People's Architect
2024 Monograph

Ross Bar­ney Archi­tects releas­es it’s sec­ond mono­graph — ​“The Peo­ple’s Archi­tect — Car­ol Ross Barney”. 

Pub­lic space is the soul of the stu­dio. This book cel­e­brates the his­to­ry and char­ac­ter of the peo­ple Ross Bar­ney Archi­tects designs for.

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For her ded­i­ca­tion to design of noble, every­day projects, Car­ol Ross Bar­ney, FAIA, Hon­orary ASLA, is the recip­i­ent of the 2023 Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Archi­tects Gold Medal. A renowned Archi­tect for pub­lic and civic space design, she has spent her career cre­at­ing excep­tion­al pub­lic spaces that have made a last­ing impact. Her designs have become cul­tur­al icons, show­cas­ing her belief in the trans­for­ma­tive pow­er of the built envi­ron­ment on our dai­ly lives. A rec­og­nized urban­ist, men­tor, and edu­ca­tor, she firm­ly advo­cates that excel­lent design should be acces­si­ble to all, empha­siz­ing that it is a right rather than a priv­i­lege. For almost two decades, her stu­dio was involved in projects along Chicago’s rivers, includ­ing the design of the icon­ic Chica­go Riverwalk. 

Through­out all of her work, she has endeav­ored to make the world a bet­ter place and, in doing so, made an indeli­ble mark on the pro­fes­sion. Her pio­neer­ing approach and ethics exem­pli­fy the high­est aspi­ra­tions of architecture. 

Carol’s archi­tec­ture ris­es direct­ly out of the needs and aspi­ra­tions of the peo­ple who use it … Over a remark­able career she nev­er quite los­es the voice of the peo­ple. With lit­tle ego and tremen­dous grit, she is remak­ing the pub­lic sphere in ways that pre­serve democ­ra­cy and dis­trib­ute ben­e­fits fairly.

 Avinash Rajagopal, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis Magazine
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Con­trib­u­tors 

Car­ol Ross Bar­ney, FAIA, Hon­orary ASLA has been in the van­guard of civic space design since found­ing Ross Bar­ney Archi­tects in 1981. With a career that spans over 50 years, Car­ol has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the built envi­ron­ment, the pro­fes­sion, and archi­tec­tur­al edu­ca­tion. From her ear­ly days in the Unit­ed States Peace Corps plan­ning Nation­al Parks in Cos­ta Rica to col­lab­o­ra­tions with Gov­ern­ments, Car­ol has relent­less­ly advo­cat­ed that excel­lent design is a right, not a priv­i­lege. Her body of work, being almost exclu­sive­ly in the pub­lic realm, rep­re­sents these aspi­ra­tions and occu­pies a unique place with­in the panora­ma of con­tem­po­rary architecture

Iker Gil is the founder of MAS Stu­dio, edi­tor-in-chief of the non­prof­it MAS Con­text, and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the SOM Foun­da­tion. Iker has edit­ed or coedit­ed sev­er­al books includ­ing Rad­i­cal Log­ic: On the Work of Ensam­bleStu­dio and Shang­hai Trans­form­ing. He has curat­ed mul­ti­ple exhi­bi­tions includ­ing Noc­tur­nal Land­scapes, Poured Archi­tec­ture: Ser­gio Prego on Miguel Fisac, and BOLD: Alter­na­tive Sce­nar­ios for Chica­go, part of the inau­gur­al Chica­go Archi­tec­ture Bien­ni­al. He was Asso­ciate Cura­tor of the US Pavil­ion for the 2018 Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale and co-cura­tor of Exhib­it Colum­bus 2020 – 2021. He has taught at the School of the Art Insti­tute of Chica­go (SAIC), Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois at Chica­go (UIC), Illi­nois Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy (IIT), and Esco­la da Cidade (São Paulo).

Oscar Riera Oje­da is an edi­tor and design­er based in the US, Chi­na, and Argenti­na. Born in 1966, in Buenos Aires, he moved to the Unit­ed States in 1990. Since then, he has pub­lished over three hun­dred books, assem­bling a remark­able body of work notable for its thor­ough­ness of con­tent, time­less char­ac­ter, and sophis­ti­cat­ed and inno­v­a­tive crafts­man­ship. Oscar Riera Ojeda’s books have been pub­lished by many pres­ti­gious pub­lish­ing hous­es across the world, includ­ing Birkhäuser, Byg­gför­laget, The Mona­cel­li Press, Gus­ta­vo Gili, Thames & Hud­son, Riz­zoli, Dami­ani, Page One, ORO edi­tions, Whit­ney Library of Design, and Taschen. 

Kate Joyce is an artist using pho­tog­ra­phy to explore inter­faces between the ordi­nary and extra­or­di­nary. Her work is informed by the geom­e­try of light and space along with doc­u­men­tary process­es and remains attuned to ele­ments of ambi­gu­i­ty and mystery.

Steve Hall is one of the country’s most respect­ed archi­tec­tur­al pho­tog­ra­phers. After earn­ing a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence degree in geol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin, Steve joined Hedrich Bless­ing where he devel­oped his rep­u­ta­tion pho­tograph­ing a wide array of Chica­go and Nation­al AIA award win­ning build­ings and interiors.

Kendall McCaugh­er­ty grad­u­at­ed with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Pho­tog­ra­phy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois Urbana-Cham­paign in 2013. That same year, she joined Hedrich Bless­ing pho­tog­ra­phers as an appren­tice and con­tin­ued devel­op­ing her craft at the renowned Chica­go-based stu­dio until its clos­ing in 2017. Kendall joined her men­tors Steve Hall and Nick Mer­rick upon the estab­lish­ment of Hall+Merrick, becom­ing a pho­tog­ra­ph­er in 2018 and a prin­ci­pal in 2022.

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Book Size: 8.5 x 11 in / 215.9 x 279.4 mm
For­mat: Por­trait
Pages: 200
Lan­guage: Eng­lish
Pho­tographs: 200
Illus­tra­tions: 25
Pub­li­ca­tion Date: August 2024
Edi­tion: Hard­cov­er
Weight: 1.80 kg
Price: US $55 / €50 / £45
ISBN: 978−1−946226−63−1

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