Art. Architecture. Music. Science

Founded in 2000, and located in the Vanchiglia neighborhood of Turin, Italy, in the beautiful Piedmont region, Kim Williams Books (KWB) is specialized in relationships between the sciences, architecture and art. This includes studies dealing with of the diverse interconnections between art, architecture and the sciences, the history of science and mathematics, the history of the arts and beyond. Always combining tradition and innovation towards the future, these areas of study are now joined by the addition of volumes on music to our catalogue.

Texan by birth and Italian by adoption, Kim Williams holds a degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Texas in Austin. After working in New York City for the better part of a decade, including five years in the architecture firm of Philip Johnson, Kim moved to Italy where she began writing books about architecture. A keen draftsman, her drawings have been displayed in both group and solo exhibits, and have appeared in books and on book covers. She is the founder and director emerita of the biennial conference series “Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics”, begun in 1996 and still actively followed by a growing international community, and founder and emerita editor-in-chief of the Nexus Network Journal, a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to studies in architecture and mathematics, founded in 1999, now published by SpringerNature, and recognized for editorial excellence in 2024, 2023, and 2021, among other international recognitions. 

 As a scholar, she has produced numerous monographs, articles in scholarly journals, and book chapters on the use of mathematical principles in architecture. She is the author of Italian Pavements. Patterns in Space (Houston: Anchorage Press, 1997); The Villas of Palladio (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003); The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti (with Stephen Wassell and Lionel March, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010); Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future (with Michael Ostwald, 2 vols., Cham: Birkhäuser, 2014); Daniele Barbaro’s Vitruvius of 1567 (Cham: Birkhäuser, 2019); Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568 (with Cosimo Monteleone and Philip Steadman, Cham, Birkhäuser, 2021). With Michael Ostwald, she is director of the book series “Mathematics for the Built Environment”.

With over three decades of experience with books and collaborations – writing, editing and publishing – Kim Williams is able to produce books of the highest quality, based on careful review and editing, and printing and binding using the latest technologies and fine paper stocks and binding.