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
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, 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
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Early life and education
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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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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American architects
American women architects
American historians of mathematics
University of Texas at Austin alumni
21st-century American women