Kim Williams (architect) facts for kids
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)
See also
In Spanish: Kim Williams (arquitecta) para niños
