James teaches Diploma 18 at the AA, focusing on material reuse. He also teaches the seminar Conservation Conversation. He is editor of Ad Hoc Baroque (Rotor, 2023) and Back to the Office (NAi, 2022), and he has worked at OMA/AMO in the Netherlands, where he edited the Rem Koolhaas/AMO books Countryside, A Report(Taschen, 2020), Elements of Architecture (Taschen, 2018), and Project Japan (Taschen, 2011). He is author of When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography (MIT Press, 2010).