People and Places: Connections between the Inner and Outer Landscape - Hardcover

John R. Myer; Margaret H. Myer

9781931807456: People and Places: Connections between the Inner and Outer Landscape

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931807450 ISBN 13: 9781931807456

Publisher: Peter E Randall Pub, 2006

A unique perspective born of co-authors' separate backgrounds as architect and child psychiatrist provides a groundbreaking treatise on the effects of place on people. Written for those engaged in making places ― urban planners, housewives, architects, politicians, builders, and students. Drawing on Erikson's work, the book explores our early and lifelong needs and then relates these needs to places.

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About the Author:

John Myer was the department head of architecture at MIT. Among his many buildings are the Boston Architectural Center, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston’s Government Center and the Boston waterfront.
Margaret Myer worked in child psychiatry at Tufts New England Medical Center, where she was Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, and she was a lecturer on psychology at Harvard Medical School.
The Myers are residents of Tamworth, NH / Hanover, NH.

Review:

People & Places is that rare book that has the ability to bridge a multiplicity of interests and appeal to all sorts of readers. If it were a music album, you'd call it a ‘crossover’.Architects will love its broad range of reference and sophisticated approach tot he built environment. The Myers know their stuff, from the proverbial ‘hut in the storm’ to the grand icons of domestic and civic architecture. They are also grounded in the practical problems of building their own home―a brilliant contemporary house and barn in rural New Hampshire. Their lively writing about this place reminds one of the popular works of Witold Rybcznski, with The Most Beautiful House in the World, and Tracy Kidder’s House.Homeowners will experience the blink reaction―an aha! moment that illuminates everything about their property―landscape, orientation, ornamentation―and makes a sense of why we feel at home in a place, whether it be a condo or a castle. I can’t imagine a better starting point for creating a space of one’s own.Thoughtful people interested in human psychology will delight in how the Myers reinterpret the life-stage set forth by Erik. H Erikson in imaginative new ways.Lively writing informs every page. Psychiatric social worker Margaret Myer and her husband architect John Myer bring two diverse lives to bear on one subject: the connections between the inner and outer space. These connections we may have felt intuitively, but have never seen expressed. The ages of man and womankind, the struggle to mature, the rewards of growing up, all these are magically brought to bear on our habitat, our earth and dwelling place. Finally the integration of text and image is supple and illuminating. This is a very personal work by two people of passion and intelligence. It will touch the hearts and the minds of a great variety of readers and reach a broad mainstream audience. (Rebecca Sinkler, Editor Emerita, The New York Times Book Review)

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