[Sigia-l] History of "Information Architecture"

[Emily Leahy]

I've only been a practicing IA for about 5 years, so I
can't profess to "remember" where the term came from,
but we did study it back in library/information
studies school :).  My understanding is that it was
coined by Richard Saul Wurman (his book, "Information
Architects" was mentioned in a post earlier today in
the "IA Beyond the Web" thread.)


This link gives some good information about the
origins of the field:

http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/InfoArchitecture.html

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