
Located in Turin, Italy, in the beautiful Piedmont region,
Kim Williams Books specializes in relationships between
the sciences, architecture and art. This includes studies
dealing with of the relationships between art, architecture
and the sciences, the history of science and mathematics
and the history of the arts.
Kim Williams is the director of the successful, ongoing
conference series, "Nexus: Relationships Between
Architecture and Mathematics." When she first began
writing about architecture and mathematics in 1988,
there was no specific venue for the publication of scholarly
studies regarding the relationships of architecture
to geometry, theories of proportion, number symbolism
and the like. The Nexus conferences began in 1996, along
with the book series, "Nexus: Architecture and
Mathematics". The first three conferences were
held in Italy, in Fucecchio (1996), Mantua (1998), Ferrara
(2000). In 2002, the first Nexus conference outside
of Italy was held in Obidos, Portugal. Nexus 2004 took
place in Mexico City. Nexus 2006 brought Nexus once
again to Italy, and took place in Genoa in June 2006.
Nexus 2008 took place in San Diego, California. Nexus
2010 will take place in Porto, Portugal. The conferences
attract an international following of architects and
mathematicians, but also historians, scientists, archaeologists
and theologians.
The response to the biennial conferences was so great
that in 1999 Kim Williams founded the Nexus
Network Journal, a peer-reviewed journal for
mathematics and mathematics. The NNJ is published both
in electronic form and in print. As of January 2006,
the NNJ is co-published by Kim Williams Books
and Birkhauser Publishers of Basel, Switzerland.
In 2000 Kim Williams Books was founded to publish full-length
studies and monographs. Based on her experience publishing
the Nexus books and the Nexus Network Journal,
Kim Williams is able to publish scholarly books of the
highest quality, based on careful peer-review and editing,
and printing and binding using the latest technology
and fine paper stocks and binding.
The on-going Nexus conference and book series has given
rise to a unique opportunity not only to present studies
in a given discipline, but actually to give form to
that discipline.
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