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.

[@AnnMedlock]

Delighted to find this. I spent five years working with Chris to build a house in the 80s, before he did the Sussex project. It was a treat to listen to his thoughts again, in this video.

[@mmendi1114]

I'm in awe that you got to work alongside such an individual and the experience and memories gained....

[@olgavolchkova8209]

Thank you Urbanology! More videos please!

[@alexandernazarenko4747]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@mauropainter]

Get a feel for what seemed to be the right thing to do here Only thing one was aware of Bricks Size is phenomenally I wasn’t interested because it was traditional Those bricks had feeling and other bricks don’t It’s meant to look pretty but it doesn’t because it’s all wrong It had disappeared why you would bother to do it It doesn’t have any thing to do with anything historical If you’re going to build a wall out of this stuff that’s what you do to make sense out of it The bricks need to be a more pure color When you try to do things the right way A way that has actual feeling in it I suppose you end up in a place That either is traditional or has the real character of tradition

[@mauropainter]

What this is is perfectly harmonious with the sheep and the trees and the grass