John James - Bibliography

"Survey of an aspect of middle class housing", Melbourne, 1952, MS held in the Dixon Library, Sydney.

"The New Guard, a tale of two leaders "(first draft) 1955, MS held in the Dixon Library, Sydney.

"The Guardsmen are born", Nation Review, lxiv 1961, 8-11.

Review of Eric Campbell's "The Rallying Point", in Nation Review, xlxxix 1965, 20-23.

"Progress Control", Architectural Science Review, x 1967, 6-15.

"The Contractors of Chartres", The Architectural Association Quarterly, iv 1972, 42-53.

"La cathédrale de Chartres", Richesses de France: Eure-et-Loir, Trans. Dominique Maunoury, Paris, 1972.

"What price the cathedrals?", Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, xix 1972, 47-66.

"Sacred geometry on the island of Bali", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ii 1973, 141-55. click here for summary

"Medieval Geometry: the western rose of Chartres cathedral", Architectural Association Quarterly, v 1973, 4-10.

"Medieval Astrology: the signs of the Zodiac on the Royal Portal of Chartres cathedral", The Federation of Australian Astrologers Journal, iv 1974, 10-13 and v 1975, 7-12.

"In the steps of the pilgrims", Notre Dame de Chartres, xxv 1974, 7.

Divide me a Circle: a history of measure, MS Sydney, 1975.

Chartres, les constructeurs, Chartres, iii vols. 1977-82.

"The mystery of the great labyrinth, Chartres cathedral", Studies in Comparative Religion, xi 1977, 92-115.

"Significance in sacred sites: the churches around Positano", Annals of Science, xxxv 1978, 103-30, click for details.

The ratio hunter, Dooralong, 1978.

The contractors of Chartres, Dooralong, ch. I-V, 1978.

The contractors of Chartres, Wyong, ii vols. 1979-81. click for details of these volumes

"Gothic pinnacles", The Architectural Association Quarterly, xi 1979, 55-59.

"The building of the cathedrals", Airways, 1980, 20-23.

The pioneers of the Gothic Movement: interim report 1, Wyong, 1980.

"Discrepancies in medieval architecture: careless or deliberate?" Architectural Association Quarterly, xiii 1982, 41-48.

Chartres: the masons who built a legend, London, 1982.

"The rib vaults of Durham cathedral", Gesta, xxii 1983, 135-145 .click for current Durham research

"The pioneers of the gothic movement", Architectural History Papers, Adelaide, 1984, 24-44.

"Walking on the past", Notre-Dame de Chartres, 1984, 16-17.

"An investigation into the uneven distribution of churches in the Paris Basin, 1140-1240", Art Bulletin, lxvi 1984, 13-46.

"The canopy of Paradise", Studies in Cistercian art and architecture, lxix 1984, 115-129.

The traveler's key to medieval France; a guide to the sacred architecture, New York, 1986.

"An examination of some anomalies in the ascension and incarnation portals of Chartres Cathedral", Gesta, xxv 1986, 101-108.

"La construction de la façade occidentale de la cathédrale de Senlis", La Cathédrale Notre Dame de Senlis au XIIe Siècle, Paris 1987, 109-118.

"Les hommes de Chartres, visionnaires et artistes", L'univers de Chartres with Jean Favier, Paris, 1988, 162-173.

"The men of Chartres visionaries and craftsmen", Das Universum von Chartres, with Jean Favier and Jean Bernard, Stuttgart, 1989.

The Stones will Speak: archaeolithic techniques for identifying the pioneers of the Gothic Movement, Doctoral dissertation, University of New South Wales, 1989.

The Template-makers of the Paris Basin, Leura, 1989 click for details of this book

"The Ozone Layer", Blue Mountains Whisper, ii 1989, 15.

The master masons of Chartres, London, NY, Chartres and Sydney, 1990, ISBN 0646008056. for details click here

Scribe, the drawing office manager: owner's guide and manual, Sydney, 1990.

"The men of Chartres visionaries and craftsmen", The Universe of Chartres, with Jean Favier and Jean Bernard, New York, 1990.

"Chapiteaux à feuilles d'acanthe du Portail Royal", Bulletin de la société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, xxvii 1990, 124-128.

"Chartres cathedral and the rule of geometry", Proceedings of the sixth New Norcia Humanities symposium, Perth, 1990, 109-121.

"Warm up to a waterfrontage?" Blue Mountains Whisper, ix 1990, 12.

Les maitres constructeurs de Chartres, Chartres, 1990.

"Etude des anomalies dans les portails de l'ascension et de l'incarnation a la cathédral de Chartres", Bulletin de la société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, xxvii 1990, 110-123.

"The early Christian era, etc", The illustrated dictionary of Architects and Architecture, ed. Dennis Sharp, London 1991, 184-193.

"Evidence for flying buttresses before 1180", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, li 1992, 261-287.

"Rib Vaults in Italy", Avista Forum, vi 1993, 5-6. for more click

"Multiple contracting in the Saint-Denis chevet", Gesta, xxxxii 1993, 42-62.

"The rib vaults of Durham cathedral", Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought, ed. B. Farmer and H. Louw, London, 1993, 572-579.

Notes to Transformation, Leura, 1994 click for details and quotations

"A northern master for Clermont-Ferrand?", Avista Forum, viii 1994, 5-7.

"In defence of Toichology", Avista Forum, vii 1994, 9.

"Medieval Units of Measure: the feet of the master", Avista Forum, ix 1995, 12-14.

John James and Stephen Gardner, "The work of Count Galeran", Avista Forum, x 1996-7, 9-10.

"The tools of Hues Libergier, Master Mason of the Thirteenth Century", Architectural Theory Review, ii 1997, 142-149.

"Funding the Early Gothic churches of the Paris Basin", Parergon, xv 1997, 41-82.

"An Architect's approach to Medieval Geometry", Avista Forum, Nov??? 1997 For text click

"La mystère du grand labyrinthe de la cathédrale de Chartres", Connaissance des Religions: Lumières du Moyen Age: Spiritualité et symbolism, li-lii 1997, 26-51.

"Les signes du Zodiaque et le Portail Royal de la cathédrale de Chartres", Connaissance des Religions: Lumières du Moyen Age: Spiritualité et symbolism, li-lii 1997, 52-66.

"Chartres a eu de la chance, les Parisiens étaient occupés", Monde médiéval et société chartraine, Paris 1997, 39-62.

"Un sculpteur Chartrain en Italie", Bulletin de la société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, xxxiv 1998, 124-128.

"Could Suger have built the choir of Saint-Denis in four years?", Avista Forum, x 1998, 23-25.

The Creation of Gothic Architecture - an Illustrated Thesaurus: The Ark of God. Part A: "The Evolution of Foliate Capitals in the Paris Basin 1170 to 1250", London and Hartley Vale, 2002 For details click here.

"Truth and distortions in the creation of Gothic history", ISAA Journal, 2004. Click here for summary

"How many built all the churches?", Avista Forum, pending 2004

"Spirit clear, Soul mysterious", Now magazine, August 2003, 4.

"A chronology for French High Gothic: Consequences of The Ark," submitted and pending

"Summary of talk given at the Leeds Medieval Conference, July 2003, 'A chronology for French High Gothic: Consequences of The Ark of God'," Avista Forum, pending 2004

"The peaked arch, and the earliest domical rib vaults in the Paris Basin" pending

In preparation:

** The History of Durham cathedral, its masters and their methods, For details and arguments

** The Creation of Gothic Architecture - an Illustrated Thesaurus: The Ark of God. Part B: "The Evolution of Foliate Capitals in the Paris Basin 1100 to 1170", Click here for intentions and arguments
and for list of the 1750 churches in this study, and for a discussion of foliate capitals.

** The Creation of Gothic Architecture - an Illustrated Thesaurus: The Ark of God. Part C: "The Evolution of the vault form between 1100 and 1140", Click here for state of research
and for list of rib-vaulted churches in this study.

** "An analysis of invention among the early gothic churches of the Paris Basin, including an addendum to "An investigation into the Uneven Distribution of Early Gothic Churches in the Paris Basin, 1140-1240"

** "The foliate capitals in the nave of Peterborough Cathedral"

** "The complex construction history of the western towers of Chartres cathedral" pending