Kim Williams

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. She founded the independent publishing house, Kim Williams Books, in 2000, with the aim of creating an outlet for research works in mathematics, architecture and art. In 2014 the catalog was expanded to include books about music. In 2024 she began publishing original sheet music in both print and digital formats.

Williams holds a degree in architectural studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a licensed architect in New York. She also holds a degree in musicology from the University of Pavia, Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni Culturali, Cremona, Italy.

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) Daniele Barbaro's Perspective of 1568 (with Cosimo Monteleone, Birkhäuser, 2021)

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)