Beautiful Campus

[LaCajunsFan]

If you ever regain the interest I highly encourage you to move forward with it. I for one would truly appreciate it.

I actually am in the process of doing this (has kind of cut into my productivity at work, lol). So far I've written a summary of each building, including date of construction/derivation of name/purpose(s)/etc. I have a special interest in all of the various athletic venues, and of course Cypress Grove/Lake.

I then hit the mother lode when I found a digital library of the pics from the Dr Stephens collection: he took it up around 1920, and include just about every aspect of campus life during that period, including each of the buildings completed. Can't tell you how much I've enjoyed going through them over last month or so....I've saved about 200 pics from the site. My next step will have to be to go to Dupre to fill in some missing pieces.

I had thought of doing something here to share it all, but wasn't sure what the interest would be, or how best to proceed. Maybe Turbine can give us guidance, provided people want to see this on RP.

[HelmutVII]

I actually am in the process of doing this (has kind of cut into my productivity at work, lol). So far I've written a summary of each building, including date of construction/derivation of name/purpose(s)/etc. I have a special interest in all of the various athletic venues, and of course Cypress Grove/Lake.

I then hit the mother lode when I found a digital library of the pics from the Dr Stephens collection: he took it up around 1920, and include just about every aspect of campus life during that period, including each of the buildings completed. Can't tell you how much I've enjoyed going through them over last month or so....I've saved about 200 pics from the site. My next step will have to be to go to Dupre to fill in some missing pieces.
I had thought of doing something here to share it all, but wasn't sure what the interest would be, or how best to proceed. Maybe Turbine can give us guidance, provided people want to see this on RP.

I was thinking about starting with the oldest buildings and working up to the newest. It would illustrate how ideas, materials, building techniques and procedures changed over time.

[LaCajunsFan]

I was thinking about starting with the oldest buildings and working up to the newest. It would illustrate how ideas, materials, building techniques and procedures changed over time.

My summary is listed chronologically, from the first one, 'old' Martin Hall, to the current century. It would be great to have construction details included, along with the summary and original pics I've collected.

BTW, DeClouet (1902) and Foster (1905) are the oldest extant buildings on campus. Girard (1923) is the next oldest. Of the original campus buildings built, besides the first Martin (1900) we also lost Brown Ayres (1910) to fire in ~1971.

[CajunRebel]

I was thinking about starting with the oldest buildings and working up to the newest. It would illustrate how ideas, materials, building techniques and procedures changed over time.

Actually this was done in great detail when Architects Southwest created the UL Master Plan. It is a fantastic read if you haven't seen it before. It documents and categorizes every building on campus.

What I found fascinating was that it also talks about the different design movements over the past 100 years, the reasoning behind their development, how they were incorporated into the campus, and how it affected campus (good or bad.) And then in light of that, it talks about how to design moving forward.

https://president.louisiana.edu/stra...ns/master-plan

[LaCajunsFan]

Actually this was done in great detail when Architects Southwest created the UL Master Plan. It is a fantastic read if you haven't seen it before. It documents and categorizes every building on campus.

What I found fascinating was that it also talks about the different design movements over the past 100 years, the reasoning behind their development, how they were incorporated into the campus, and how it affected campus (good or bad.) And then in light of that, it talks about how to design moving forward.

https://president.louisiana.edu/stra...ns/master-plan

Yes, it's a great document, and I've studied it pretty well over the years...it does go into a very detailed architectual/design explanation of the buildings. Here is the link to that specific doc:

https://louisiana.edu/sites/louisian...0-%20small.pdf

But it doesn't really discuss the construction/engineering aspects that Helmut might be able to add. I for one would really like to see that info.

[HelmutVII]

I didn't know about the ASW document. Glad I didn't waste my time.