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The Contractors of Chartres
| Author | : John James |
| Publisher | : West Grinstead Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
The Master Masons of Chartres
| Author | : John James |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780646008059 |
James' analysis of Chartres is likely to be the best and most detailed we shall have.' JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS The great cathedral of Chartres is the most impressive and exciting building surviving from the middle ages, andis preserved almost intact. Yet we know nothing of the men who created it. John James, in this masterpiece of detection, shows how he came to identify the master masons from the stones themselves. His meticulous `reading' of the cathedral has revealed much about those men: how they solved problems of engineering and design, how they raised two-ton stones forty metres into the air, and how one mason controlled over 300 men in this gigantic workshop. JOHN JAMES is an Australian architect. His first visit to Chartres, in 1969, led to a continuing passion for the early Gothic buildings of northern France, and he has been `reading their stones' ever since.
In Search of the Unknown in Medieval Architecture
| Author | : John James |
| Publisher | : Pindar Press |
| Total Pages | : 601 |
| Release | : 2007-12-31 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1915837162 |
John James is an Australian architect and medieval historian. Since 1969 he has been searching for the origins of the Gothic style, beginning with a five-year study of Chartres cathedral. At that time there were no coherent techniques for analysing the detailed construction history of existing stone structures. This he created. He expanded his research to include all the early Gothic churches in the Paris region with a three-year survey of over 3500 buildings. His most important discovery has been that all churches of this period were constructed in many short campaigns by mobile building teams, and that major innovation was more likely to occur in the smaller buildings than in the larger. This volume makes available 42 of the author's studies on the development of Gothic architecture in France.
Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers
| Author | : David Turnbull |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135288208 |
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space thrugh the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogenous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe - rather they are complex and heterogeneous motleys.
Publications
| Author | : Illinois State Historical Society |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1920 |
| Genre | : Illinois |
| ISBN | : |
Proportion
| Author | : Richard Padovan |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1135811105 |
This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion the focus of their work: Le Corbusier and Van der Laan. The book ends with a reflection on the present and future role of proportion in architecture.
Transactions for the Year 1919
| Author | : Illinois State Historical Society |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1920 |
| Genre | : Illinois |
| ISBN | : |
An Architecture Notebook
| Author | : Simon Unwin |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 710 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780415228732 |
A companion volume to the author's successful text, Analysing Architecture, this book follows the same approach and format to explore conceptual themes in architecture further.
