Publications

The Center for Health Design Webinar
July 2019
“VA Healing Environments and Research: Connection, Reflection, Introspection, Trust and Acceptance”
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Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
September 2018
“Transformation: The Department of Veteran Affairs Healing Environment Guideline”
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 2018
“With PTSD Reaching Well Beyond Combat Vets, Trauma Experts See Need for ‘Healing Spaces'”
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Paul Alt on WORT’s “A Public Affair”
May 2018
“Providing Veterans With Spaces for Healing”
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Annals of Palliative Medicine
July 2017
“Sacred Spaces and the Healing Journey”
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Chicago Architect Magazine
March 2017
“Theater as Public Catharsis: The Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Building”
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Chicago Architect
July/ August 2013
“Soldiers’ Sanctuaries: Paul Alt is Designing Facilities that Welcome, Dignify, and Heal Contemporary Military Veterans”
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Chicago Architect
July/ August 2009
“Deluged: The Flood that Devastated an Iowa City Brought a Second Flood – of Challenges for Architects and Civic Leaders”
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ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly)
1999 – Volume 3, Issue 4

“Death and rebirth in Chicago: the Du Sable High School Urban Ecology Sanctuary”
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New York Times
April 22, 1996
Don Terry – “Envisioning Peace and Remembrance in Courtyard”
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Paul Alt on WBEZ’s “Metropolis”
1995
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Workshops + Symposia

Communal Healing Frameworks [/one_half]

Unfinished Work: The Gettysburg Address – A Discussion

 News

Bayonet used to cut Veteran’s Memorial Building’s ribbon – May 21, 2014

Veterans Memorial Coliseum Re-Opens – April 17, 2014

Public Grand Opening and Summit for Veterans – April 15 – April 6, 2014

Gymnastics Event Hosted at Veterans Memorial Building – March 21, 2014

Moving Day for Vets in Cedar Rapids – Feb. 05, 2014

Work on Veterans Memorial Building nearly finished – Jan. 09, 2014

Rebirth and Renewal: Environments for Healing, Education, and Community for Wounded Warriors and their Families – April 24, 2013

Paul Alt Meets with DryHootch in Milwaukee, WI – Feb. 20, 2013

Veterans Memorial Building featured on KCRG News – Feb. 02, 2013

AA+R joins IJF – Jan. 17, 2013

Partnership with HKS – Jan. 14, 2013