Past conferences:
The series of the biennial “Nexus-Architecture and Mathematics” international conferences began much before the present association was officially founded. It was started by Kim Williams, an American architect and free-lance scholar living in Italy. She organized the very first Nexus conference in Fucecchio near Florence, in Italy in 1996. She went on being the only director and organizer of the following two conferences in Mantua and Ferrara until collaboration with university professors of architecture, mathematics and engineering from of all over the world started.
From the very first meetings gathering only a few contributors, the Nexus conferences grew to meetings during which about sixty scientific papers are presented and discussed.
The Nexus conferences are regularly scheduled during the month of June of every odd year.
Nexus 2025
2025
Vicenza – Italy
University of Padova, Department of Engineering
The 2025 Nexus Conference is the very first meeting officially organized by the Nexus-Architecture and Mathematics association.
It took place in Italy and was organized in partnership with the Engineering School of Padova University and directed by Prof. Cosimo Monteleone, a Fulbright professor.
It took place in the prestigious Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, and a piano concert was offered to the participants at the meeting in the famous Teatro Olimpico designed and built by Andrea Palladio.
Nexus 2023
2023
Turin – Italy
Turin Politecnico
The 2023 “Nexus-Architecture and Mathematics” conference was the last to be organized by Kim Williams before the association took over this task. It took place in Turin -Italy. It was organized in partnership with the Turin Politecnico, and was directed by Prof. Roberta Spallone. The meeting was hosted in the beautiful and magnificently decorated Castello del Valentino, along the Po River.
Nexus 2020/2021
2021
Kaiserslautern – Germany
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Architecture School
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Nexus meeting that was scheduled for June 2020 (a moment in which it was nor easy nor safe to travel abroad) was first postponed to autumn 2020, and eventually, for security reasons, was held on-line in June 2021. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Nexus conferences that had been, until then, regularly held on even years, are now organized on odd year.
Nexus 2020/2021 was organized in partnership with the Architecture School of the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Germany and was directed by Prof. Cornelie Leopold.
Cornelie Leopold and her team organized a very efficient on-line meeting and took care of sending the various slide shows to all the participants ahead of time, so that the discussion after each talk could be more fruitful and lively.
Nexus 2018
2018
Pisa – Italy
University of Pisa, Engineering School
Past workshops and conferences
Nexus 2016
The University of the Basque Country, E.T.S. Arquitectura
Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Nexus 2014
Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture
Ankara – Turkey
Workshop “Leonardo 2013”
Perdizes, Douro region, Portugal
Nexus 2012
Milan – Italy
Milan Politecnico, Architecture School
Nexus 2010
Porto – Portugal
University of Porto, Architecture School
Nexus VII
2008
San Diego CA – USA
Point Loma Nazarene University, Department of Mathematics
Nexus VI
2006
Genoa – Italy
University of Genoa, Architecture School
Nexus V
2004
Mexico City – Mexico
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Workshop “Leonardo 2003”
Vinci, Ponte a Egola, Tuscany, Italy
Nexus IV
2002
Obidos – Portugal
University of Lisbon
Nexus III
2000
Ferrara – Italy
University of Ferrara, Architecture School
Nexus II
1998
Mantua – Italy
Centro Studi Leon Battista Alberti, Mantova
Nexus I
1996
Fucecchio (Florence) – Italy
Fondazione Montanelli-Bassi
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