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Kim Williams
Editor in
Chief, Nexus Network Journal
Kim Williams is a writer and editor living
and working in Italy. She received her degree in Architectural
Studies from the University of Texas in Austin, and is licensed
as an architect in New York State. Her apprenticeship was done
in the offices of Philip Johnson in New York. She became interested
in mathematics and architecture while writing Italian Pavements:
Patterns in Space (Houston: Anchorage Press, 1997) about the role
of decorated pavements in the history of Italian architecture.
In 1996 she began the international conference series "Nexus:
Architecture and Mathematics," the eighth edition of which, Nexus
2010, will take place in Porto, Portugal, 13-15 June 2010. In
1999 she founded the Nexus Network Journal to provide a dedicated
venue for scholarly research in architecture and mathematics.
In 2000 she founded Kim Williams Books, an independent press for
books about architecture and mathematics.
Kim has published many articles in scholarly journals on the use
of mathematical principles in architecture, including Mathematical
Intelligencer and Leonardo. Her drawings have been displayed in
both group and solo exhibits. She has participated in numerous
international conferences, and regularly lectures on architecture
and mathematics. Her latest book is The Villas of Palladio
(New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).
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