A thesis from the Harvard Graduate School of Design on Information Architecture : The Representation of Virtual Environments. It’s interesting that the author is using the term in a sense that includes interface design, which makes perfect sense coming from, and when speaking to, traditional architecture.
A quote: “Architects are in a better position to design virtual environments than those who currently define the form
and structure of webspace, but not if we continue to apply the metaphors and constraints of shelter and
gravity. Software engineers produce objects of unparalleled efficiency and economy, but I believe that
information design also has a necessary purpose, the same as architecture, to move the heart (and the
mind), to inspire.”