Design Firm Management & Administration Report

Information architecture—using architectural design methods to design and produce informationdelivery systems—offers A/E firms new design opportunities and new sources of revenue. That’s the way it looks to Giles Jacknain, staff member of the AIA’s economics and research department, writing recently on the AIA’s Web site (http://www.e-architect.com/news/research/articles/infoarch.asp ). Because successful graphic design of Web-based information sites relies ever more on spatialdesign concepts, clients are looking for information architects who can meet their design needs, he states.