Adaptation - with Christopher Alexander - part one: Adapting to the Environment or "Flint & Brick"

Among the steps you need to take - if you want to build in harmony with the environment, if you want to build with the living part of it, fixing the parts that are not so alive, thereby making things better and doing no harm - is to get in tune with the available materials, and find the best way to use them, and respect them. From May of 1995, during the construction of Alexander's Visitor's Centre for the West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, in West Sussex, UK. Interview by David Heine, Danielle Janes, and Greg Bryant.