The document discusses the relationship between information architecture and architecture. It explores how information is organized and structured through architectural means, creating conceptual worlds. Early forms of classification and linguistic systems are precursors to modern information architecture. The document examines how architecture incorporates organizing principles to construct and communicate meaning. It suggests information architecture has roots in ancient architectural concepts of place and memory. The document aims to understand where architecture exists within information architecture.

1. World IA DAY 2013 | Sentient Architectures of Information
Dr. Martyn Dade-Robertson
ArchaID
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
Newcastle University
09/02/2012

2. Where is the Architecture
in Information
Architecture?

4. A
consensual
hallucina-on
experienced
daily
by
billions
of
legi-mate
operators,
in
every
na-on,
by
children
being
taught
mathema-cal
concepts
...a
graphical
representa-on
of
data
abstracted
from
the
banks
of
every
computer
in
the
human
system.
Unthinkable
complexity.
Lines
of
light
ranged
in
the
nonspace
of
the
mind,
clusters
and
constella-ons
of
data.
Like
city
lights
receding.'
(Gibson
1984:
67)

5. A
consensual
hallucina-on
experienced
daily
by
billions
of
legi-mate
operators,
in
every
na-on,
by
children
being
taught
mathema-cal
concepts
...a
graphical
representa-on
of
data
abstracted
from
the
banks
of
every
computer
in
the
human
system.
Unthinkable
complexity.
Lines
of
light
ranged
in
the
nonspace
of
the
mind,
clusters
and
constella5ons
of
data.
Like
city
lights
receding.'
(Gibson
1984:
67)

7. What was the first architectural gesture?

8. c.
2500BC

10. Primi5ve
Classifica5on
Durkheim
&
Mauss
(1963)

11. Primi5ve
Classifica5on
Durkheim
&
Mauss
(1963)

12. Primi5ve
Classifica5on
Durkheim
&
Mauss
(1963)

13. Primi5ve
Classifica5on
Durkheim
&
Mauss
(1963)

15. Linguis5c
System
Architectonic
System

16. Linguis5c
System
Architectonic
System

17. …incorporates
the
en.re
set
of
place-­‐
Architectonic
System
making
orderings
whereby
individuals
construct
and
communicate
a
conceptual
Linguis5c
System
world
through
the
use
of
palpable
dis.nc.ons
in
forma.on
…[which
are]…
addressed
to
the
visual
channel,
to
be
decoded
spa.o-­‐
kine.cally
over
.me.
(Preziosi
1979:
4)
Language
Architecture
and
Meaning
Preziosi
(1979)

18. …incorporates
the
en#re
set
of
place-­‐
Architectonic
System
making
orderings
whereby
individuals
construct
and
communicate
a
conceptual
Linguis5c
System
world
through
the
use
of
palpable
dis#nc#ons
in
forma#on
…[which
are]…
addressed
to
the
visual
channel,
to
be
decoded
spa#o-­‐
kine#cally
over
.me.
(Preziosi
1979:
4)
Language
Architecture
and
Meaning
Preziosi
(1979)

19. Architectonic
System

20. Linguis5c
System
Architectonic
System
environment.
Design
of
the
built

21. Linguis5c
System
Architectonic
System
environment.
Design
of
the
built

23. Aristotle’s
applica-on
of
the
word
‘topos’
to
general
paNerns
of
argument
is
the
source
of
the
name
of
his
trea-se,
‘The
Topics’.
And
this
use
of
the
word,
along
with
the
related
use
in
rhetoric,
is
the
source
of
the
English
expression
‘topic’
and
‘commonplace’.
If
the
above
sugges-ons
are
correct,
these
words
will
have
come
via
Aristotle
ul-mately
from
the
system
of
place
memory.
(Sorabji
2004:
32)

27. Where is the Architecture in
Information Architecture?

28. Where is the Information Architecture
in Architecture?

30. Listening Post
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin

31. Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi
Timo Arnall, Jorn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen

32. Macroscope
Tom Schofield
Martyn Dade-Robertson

33. Pivot Paths
Marian Dork

34. Information is Beautiful
David McCandless

54. THE END
martyn.dade-robertson@ncl.ac.uk
www.archaid.org
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