The Oldest Thing - Ruth van Beek Bauhaus doors and windows

doors and windows

climatically and socially responsive design

To address these questions

An interview with the authors Stephen Bates (Sergison Bates architects

schonungsloser und geradezu unheimlicher Roman über die Suche nach dem richtigen Leben im Falschen

The Oldest Thing - Ruth van Beek Bauhaus doors and windowsIn Ruth van Beeks new book The Oldest Thing it is ordinary objects that take on a body and life of their own. With a practice that is deeply interwoven into her everyday experience, Van Beek looks inwards at how her vast archive works. In doing so, she explores the thin borders between studio and domestic life, the repetition of daily tasks and the origins of her interests in manuals and household books, tracing them all the way back to her mothers