J.D. ALT started out intending to be a novelist, but became an architect and urban designer instead. He holds two U.S. patents for a downtown people mover system called “SMARTram”. He has lectured on the form of urban communites at various national and international conferences, and was invited to present his urban transit concepts in Beijing, China. Most recently, he completed two experimental houses in Port Townsend, Washington, built around a prototype prefabricated core module called a “HOUSEED”. Poised for a business start-up in 2009, the venture was put on hold because of the housing market collapse. Mr. Alt used the downtime to produce his first novel: The Architect Who Couldn’t Sing.

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