Professional Practice
2024 HALS Challenge Competition
Date: 1/1/2024 - 7/31/2024
Type: Competitions / Awards
Description:
The Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) is a national program administered by the National Park Service in collaboration with the American Society of Landscape Architects and Library of Congress. HALS documents historic landscapes through the creation of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and historical reports. Documentation is archived in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress.
The annual HALS Challenge competition encourages landscape architects, students, and other interested parties to document historic landscapes in their communities. To enter the competition, participants must complete a historical report that highlights the history, significance, and character-defining features of the surveyed landscape. This report can be supplemented with measured drawings or large-format photographs. All competition entries are archived in the HALS collection at the Library of Congress where they contribute to the nation’s largest repository of documentation on American architecture, engineering, and landscapes.