1st Edition
The Architecture of Information Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information
Introduction 1. The Architecture of Everything 2. Changing Patterns of Architecture and Information 3. Scope and Focus 4. The Place of Architectural Theory 5. The Multi-Disciplinary Context 6. Structure and Content Part 1: The Architectonic System 7. Architecture and Meaning 8. Architectonic Systems and the Emergence of Categorisation 9. Conceptual Spaces: Categories in the Mind 10. Topic and Topos 11. Conclusion Part 2: Between City Lights Receding and the Non-space of the Mind 12. Loosing the Ballast of Materiality 13. Spaces between Logic and Ontology 14. ‘Display Becomes Reality 15. The Web is not a Tree 16. Remediating Space 17. Conclusion Part 3: The Spaces of Information 18. Spaces of Information 19. The Failure of Architectural Metaphors 20. Measuring: Semantic Space 21. Mapping: Screen Space 22. Exploring: Interaction Space 23. Navigating: Architectonic Space 24. Conclusion Part 4: Reality Becomes Display 25. After Information Architecture 26. Non-discursive Formations 27. Place-Action 28. Space Agency 29. Invisible Architectures 30. Conclusion Conclusion
Biography
Martyn Dade-Robertson is Lecturer in Architecture and Communication in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. He originally did a degree in Architecture at Newcastle University before embarking on an MPhil and PhD at Cambridge University (Darwin College) on the topic of Information Architecture.
"An interesting reading of the blurring between the ‘real’ and the ‘virtual’ spaces we
live in." – Erdkunde
