Ancestral infrastructure has been deliberately excluded from conversations. There has been an unlearning of these histories, even though Indigenous People have created the oldest man-made structures on Earth," said Julia Watson, Author of LoTEK Design by Radical Indigenism, during the opening general session of the ASLA 2024 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C. This Native American Heritage Month, support a historic call to action to co-create a future that heals land and water. The call was launched during the general session by Watson, Lyla June Johnston, the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD), and ASLA and its Biodiversity and Climate Action Committee. It outlines three key strategies:- Respect Indigenous Knowledge- Empower Future Generations- Help build an Indigenous landscape architects network of ASLA members and work in collaboration with groups like ISAPDRead more in ASLA's THE DIRT: https://bit.ly/4hYpKZEImage Credit: Built by the Tofinu, the city of Ganvie meaning we survived floats on Lake Nokou surrounded by a radiating reef system of twelve thousand acadja fish pens. / Iwan Baan, courtesy of Julia WatsonIndigenous Peoples were the first landscape architects of this continent, said Lyla June Johnston, during the opening general session of the ASLA 2024 Conference on Landscape Architec

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The past year saw an abundance of new books of interest to Canadian architectsmany of them authored by Canadian designers. As the holidays approach, were rounding up this years best books.You may also be interested in this round-ups companion post, our2024 Holiday Gift Guide.All Things MoveLearning to Look at the Sistine Chapel by Jeannie Marshall ($35 CAD)In her bookAll Things Move: Learningto Look at the Sistine Chapel, Marshall makes a unique case for considering the Chapel as something other than a religious enclave, scholarly artifact, or checklist tourist attraction. Its all those, of course, but its otherworldly qualities transcend religious, academic, or tour-bus affiliations. Find out more here.An Inimitable Rogue by Storefront Manitoba ($45 CAD)This tribute to the late David Penner features contributions by many Winnipeg area friends, family, and colleagues. It also presents Penners workfrom the poetic expression of the rainwater collection at the Manitoba Electrical Museum to the transparent, translucent, and transcendent qualities of the Penner Cottage. Find out more here.Manitoba Women in Design by Marieke Gruwel ($35 CAD)Manitoba Women in Design tells the story of womens contributions to Manitobas built environment during the twentieth century. These women worked as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, planners, and engineers, and their legacies can be traced across the province. Many of these women and their contributions have been erased from architecture and design histories. This book aims to begin the process of addressing these exclusions by showcasing their lives and careers. Find out more here.Screenshot100 WomenArchitects in Practice by Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft ($90 CAD)This sampling of work by women architects is, according to its authors, a snapshot of innovative architectural practice from across the globe. Contesting the male- and Global North-dominated canon, it includes interviews with women from almost 80 countries, and prioritizes place-sensitive approaches, and equity-minded processes. Find out more here.Platform.MiddleArchitecture for Housing the 99%by 5468796 Architecture ($79 CAD)Winnipeg architecture firm 5468796 is known for working outside of the normthe puzzle-box Bloc 10, the flying-saucer-like 62Mand their first publication is no exception. Rather than a traditional monograph,platform.MIDDLE is a box set of four volumes. Together, the publications components distill lessons learned from 5468796s portfolio of missing middle housing projects, offering context and practical tools for architects to address housing affordability. Find out more here.Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living by Avi Friedman and Alexandra Pollock ($46 CAD)The book highlights the disparity in health outcomes observed in underinvested urban neighbourhoods. The lack of access to recreational spaces, healthy food options, and safe pedestrian routes exacerbates issues like obesity, diabetes, and mental health disorders, especially in lower-income neighbourhoods. The authors call for a multidimensional approach that includes strategies like food security, active mobility, green spaces, and inclusive public places. The book also stresses the need for greater cooperation between government, private and healthcare sectors, nonprofits, and more effective public awareness campaigns, underlining the procedural tactics necessary to move the needle for healthier outcomes for our cities and urban populations. Find out more here.Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances Your Minds Health by Tye Farrow ($84 CAD)In this book, architect Tye Farrow invites readers to reframe their understanding of what buildings can do by posing a series of questions, such as: How do buildings make us feel, and how can they make us feel better? A guiding concept is salutogenesisa term proposed by sociologist Aaron Antonovsky to describe the factors and conditions that promote health and well-being, rather than focusing solely on the causes and treatment of disease. Find out more here.Designed Landscapes37 Key Projectsby Alan Tate and Marcella Eaton ($57 CAD)Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Projects, by Alan Tate and Marcella Eaton, is a profusely illustrated exploration of a series of outstanding landscapes, all designed by human handthough many are located within, and skillfully exploit or complement, the natural or vernacular landscapes in which they are located. Find out more here.ResideContemporary West Coast Houses by Michael Prokopow ($55 CAD)A decade ago, Greg Bellerbys bookThe West Coast Modern House:Vancouver Residential Architecture chronicled key developments in West Coast Modern architecture, including several contemporary practices continuing that legacy. The present volume is positioned as a continuation, foregrounding new voices in a selection curated by architect Clinton Cuddington. Find out more here.The Suicide MagnetInside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on Torontos Bloor Viaduct by Paul McLaughlin ($20 CAD)In 2003, theLuminous Veila suicide barrier designed by Dereck Revington Studio along Torontos Bloor Viaductopened. Revingtons full vision did not come to completion until a full 12 years later, when the steel strings were finally illuminated with a ribbon of 35,000 LEDs. As it turns out, the journey to erect the barrier in the first place was also long and hard-fought. Find out more here.HabitatVernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate edited by Sandra Piesik ($65 CAD)Vernacular architecture is generally understood as referring to domestic, native and Indigenous structures. So it is perhaps of little surprise that in our contemporary scapedominated by forms of monolithic scale and proportionmethods of producing vernacular architecture have often been overlooked and marginalized. Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate, assembled by architect-author Sandra Piesik, offers an insightful overview of age-old methods of production, and supports and celebrates present-day efforts that follow in their wake.Find out more here.Livre Valoriser les btiments existantsby Collectif ($40 CAD)Co-written by cobtiment and architects Andr Bourassa and Richard Trempe, this book argues for the retention and rehabilitation of existing buildings as a key tool in fighting and adapting to climate change. Intended as a resource for AED professionals as well as building owners, it takes a deep dive into multiple aspects of the issue: from discussing the upfront and operational energy of buildings, to considering the regulatory environment around adaptive reuse in Quebec, to outlining key design principles for retrofitting building envelopes, structures, foundations, and mechanical systems.Louise Blanchard BethuneEvery Woman her Own Architect by Kelly Hayes McAlonie ($9 CAD)Architect, mother, cyclist, partner: Buffalo architect Louise Bethune was all of these and more. And although she was the first professional woman architect in the United States, her story has remained largely untold. In a notable new bookone of two biographies of Bethune to appear in the past decadearchitect and Canadian ex-pat Kelly Hayes McAlonie offers a comprehensive and compelling account of Bethunes life and career. What may at first glance seem like a minor story in a minor place is, in fact, an inspiring history of everyday professional determination and ethics, situated in a region that was a centre of innovation and wealth at the time. Find out more here.Related:Best books for Canadian architects: 2024 Edition, Part 12024 Holiday Gift GuideThe post Best books for Canadian architects: 2024 Edition, Part 2 appeared first on Canadian Architect.

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Mary Jackson (19212005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its successor, NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer. Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available by 1979 and realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both NASA's federal women's program and the affirmative action program. Her work sought to influence the career paths of women in science, engineering, and mathematics positions at NASA. Jackson is one of the leading characters in the 2016 book Hidden Figures and one of the three protagonists in the book's film adaptation, released the same year. This NASA photograph of Jackson was taken in 1979.Photograph credit: NASA; restored by Adam CuerdenRecently featured: Ice eggsThecacera pennigeraDouble Asteroid Redirection TestArchiveMore featured pictures

November 27WilliamIII1835 James Pratt and John Smith became the last people to be executed in England for sodomy.1856 WilliamIII (pictured) unilaterally revised the constitution of Luxembourg, greatly expanding his powers as grand duke.1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the "Let Us Continue" speech, in which he advocated for civil-rights legislation and national cohesion, to a joint session of the U.S. Congress five days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.2009 Lady Gaga performed the first concert of The Monster Ball Tour, which became the highest-grossing tour in history for a debut headlining artist.Jacopo Mazzoni (b.1548)Katherine Sleeper Walden (b.1862)Harvey Milk (d.1978)Harrie Massey (d.1983)More anniversaries: November 26November 27November 28ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout

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html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"3D scanning tools developer Kiri Innovations has released 3DGS Render 2.0, the latest version of its open-source tool for visualizing 3D Gaussian Splats inside Blender.The add-on makes it possible to import 3DGS scans of real-world objects in PLY format and manipulate them in real time inside Blender, rendering them with the Eevee renderer.Version 2.0 also makes it possible to edit 3DGS data inside Blender, including the options to crop or decimate the scanned object, and to apply simple animated effects.A new technique for generating 3D scans from images of real-world objectsBased on research published last year, 3D Gaussian Splatting is a new 3D scanning method.Like photogrammetry, it begins by generating a point cloud of a 3D object or scene from a set of source photos, but rather than converting the point cloud to a textured mesh, it converts it to gaussians, using machine learning to determined the correct color for each.The result is a high-quality and potentially fast-rendering 3D representation of the object or scene being scanned.An increasing number of 3D scanning tools now support 3D Gaussian Splatting, one obvious example being Kiri Innovations own Kiri Engine.However, native support for 3DGS data in CG applications is currently limited, although it has recently been implemented in both V-Ray 7 and D5 Render 2.9.Manipulate and render 3DGS data directly inside Blender with 3DGS Render3DGS Render is intended to address some of the pain points with existing workflows, making it possible to manipulate 3DGS scan data inside Blender like a standard 3D object.The add-on converts 3DGS data imported on PLY format into an object that can be transformed, scaled, rotated or duplicated like conventional geometry.The scan can then be lit and rendered inside Blender, although currently only using Eevee, Blenders real-time renderer, not Cycles, the main production renderer.3DGS Render 2.0: edit 3DGS data inside Blender, and apply simple animationsTo that, 3DGS Render 2.0 adds new options for editing and animating 3DGS data.A new Point Edit mode makes it possible to edit the point cloud before importing the 3DGS object: for example, to isolate an object from the surrounding scanned environment.There are also new Modifiers for camera culling, cropping the 3DGS scan, and decimating and removing artifacts from the 3DGS object inside Blender.In addition, a new Modify Animate mode makes it possible to apply simple animated procedural effects to 3DGS objects, including noise displacement and pixelation.Pricing and system requirements3DGS Render 2.0 is compatible with Blender 4.2+. Its a free download. The source code is available under an Apache 2.0 license.Read more about 3DGS Render 2.0 in the online documentationDownload 3DGS Render from Kiri Innovations GitHub repositoryHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.