Publications and Media

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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