Architecture students won second place in the 2014 Charles E. Peterson Prize for their documentation on Fort Pike.
They are now a part of the more than 2,000 students from 68 colleges and universities to participate in the competition according to the College of Art and Design’s website.
The project team is comprised of students from many different disciplines and levels, including undergraduate architecture students and graduate students from all design disciplines and a graduate photography student, according to a news release.
Because of their second place finish in the Peterson Prize Competition, the team’s work will be on display in the Library of Congress, as well as winning $2,500.
Fort Pike, which faces coastal erosion, is located on the south side of the Rigolets in Orleans Parish between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne. It recently came to fame on the HBO series True Detective.
The Peterson Prize is an annual competition open to undergraduate and graduate students and presents a total of $7,500 to first, second and third place winners. The program’s documentation constitutes the nation’s largest archive of historic architectural, engineering and landscape documentation.
The competition is presented by Historic American Building Survey, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and the American Institute of Architects. The program’s goal is to raise awareness about historic buildings and add to the HABS collection of measured drawings in the Library of Congress.
The student team, led by architecture professor Ursula Emery McClure, was part of a recording historic structures course. However, the project continued beyond the end of the semester into summer.
McClure along with team leaders Lindsay Boley and graduate student James Canles garnered a grant, which partially funded the project.
According to the design website the end product contained photographs, written historical and descriptive data, copies of measures and interpretive drawings and field records.