My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight childr…

- Carol Ross Barney

If we're going to save the planet, people are going to have to live in ways that don't require so much energy and don't create as much waste. The onl…

- Carol Ross Barney

Architects need to restore and protect.

- Carol Ross Barney

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

- Carol Ross Barney

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

- Carol Ross Barney

You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of …

- Carol Ross Barney

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

- Carol Ross Barney

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

- Carol Ross Barney

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

- Carol Ross Barney