[Sigia-l] History of "Information Architecture"

[Peter Morville]

To set the record straight, I've documented the official history (and
future) of information architecture here:

http://semanticstudios.com/publications/historia.pdf

It's the preface to a new book entitled "Information Architecture:
Designing Environments for Purpose" edited by Alan Gilchrist and Barry
Mahon, available from Amazon any day now:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1856044874/

Cheers!


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
www.semanticstudios.com


-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Peter Merholz
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:57 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] History of "Information Architecture"


Please, dear God, just read this:
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/readings/InfoArchitecture.html

One interesting point: At either the last IA summit, or the one before 
that, I asked Peter Morville about why he chose the term "information 
architecture" for describing the work he did, when Richard Saul Wurman 
had used it to define a somewhat different practice. Peter said that he 
and Lou, simply, though Wurman was wrong in his use, and they decided to

  apply the term in a way they thought more appropriate.

(Peter - feel free to correct my understanding... )

--peter