Kim Williams (architect)

Kim Williams is an American architect, an independent scholar on the connections between architecture and mathematics, and a book publisher. She is the founder of the ''Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics'' conference series, the founder and co-editor-in-chief of ''Nexus Network Journal'', and the author of several books on mathematics and architecture.

Williams has a degree in architectural studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a licensed architect in New York.

Books

Williams is the author of:
*''Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space'' (Anchorage Press, 1997)
*''The Villas of Palladio'' (illustrated by Giovanni Giaconi, Princeton Architectural Press, 2003)

She is an editor, translator, and commentator of older works on architecture and mathematics including:
*''The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti'' (with Lionel March and Stephen R. Wassell, Birkhäuser, 2010)
*''Daniele Barbaro's Vitruvius of 1567'' (Birkhäuser, 2019)

She is also the editor or co-editor of several collections of papers on architecture and mathematics, including several volumes of the ''Nexus'' conference proceedings and:
*''Two Cultures: Essays in Honour of David Speiser'' (Birkhäuser, 2006)
*''Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art: Essays by David Speiser'' (Birkhäuser, 2011)
*''Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, Volume I: Antiquity to the 1500s; Volume II: The 1500s to the future'' (with Michael J. Ostwald, Birkhäuser, 2015)
*''Masonry Structures: Between Mechanics and Architecture'' (with Danila Aita and Orietta Pedemonte, Birkhäuser, 2015)

References

External links

Kim Williams Books
Williams's publishing company

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20th-century American architects
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American historians of mathematics
University of Texas at Austin alumni
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