Kim Williams is an American architect living and working in Tuscany. She is the director of the biennial conference series "Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics" and editor-in-chief of the Nexus Network Journal, a peer-reviewed electronic and print journal dedicated to studies in architecture and mathematics. She received her degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Texas in Austin, and is licensed as an architect in New York State. She is the author of Italian Pavements. Patterns in Space (Houston: Anchorage Press, 1997) about the role of decorated pavements in the history of Italian architecture. She has published many articles in scholarly journals on the use of mathematical principles in architecture, including "The Sacred Cut Revisited: The Pavement of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence" (Mathematical Intelligencer, 16, no. 2, Spring 1994, 18-24); "Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: The Cube, The Square and the Root-2 Rectangle" (Leonardo. Journal of the International Society of Arts, Sciences and Technology, 30, no. 2 (1997), 105-112); "Spirals and the Rosette in Architectural Ornament" (Applied Geometry. MAA Notes 53. Catherine Gorini, et al., eds. Mathematical Association of America, 2000). 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.