Presentation for Reframe IA Session at 2016 Information Architecture Summit. 4000+ word article forthcoming in the ASIS&T Bulletin

1. ComparisonIn Pursuit of Masterworks of Information Architecture
Dan Klyn

2. Nicolas Poussin
Les Bergers d’Arcadie
1638
Public Domain Image, Wikimedia Commons
The photographer is
more of a pointer
than a painter
William J. Mitchell

3. Charles Moore & William Turnbull
Kresge College
1971
Photo by Dan Klyn

4. Charles Moore & William Turnbull
Kresge College
1971
Photo by Dan Klyn

5. Charles Moore & William Turnbull
Kresge College
1971
Photo by Dan Klyn

10. Photographer Unknown
Sylvia Beach and James Joyce
circa 1922
Bettmann Archive / Corbis

11. James Joyce
Ulysses First Edition
1922
Photo by Shane Davis

12. James Joyce
Ulysses Autograph Manuscript
circa 1920
Photo from The Rosenbach Museum

13. James Joyce
Ulysses 1st American Edition
1935
Designed by Ernst Reichl
Photograph of Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold circa 1954

14. James Joyce
Ulysses First Edition
1922
Photo by Dan Klyn

17. Photographer Unknown
Richard Saul Wurman and Louis Kahn
1959
Collection of Richard Saul Wurman

18. Richard Saul Wurman
The City, Form and Intent… First Edition
1963
Photo by Dan Klyn

19. Richard Saul Wurman
The City, Form and Intent… First Edition
1963
Photo by Dan Klyn

20. Richard Saul Wurman
The City, Form and Intent… First Edition
1963
Photo by Dan Klyn

21. Richard Saul Wurman
Cities: Comparisons of Form and Scale
1974
Photo by Dan Klyn

23. Wurman 1963Joyce 1922
• Fundamentally Cross-Channel
• Polymorphic In Response to Context
• Materials of Composition Lost / Broken
• Improvement via Alternate Modalities
• Iconoclastic
• 1000 copies / edition
• Lacks A Good Digital Realization
• Architected In Spite Of “The Forces”
• Fundamentally Cross-Channel
• Isomorphic In Response to Context
• Materials of Composition Lost / Broken
• Poorer In Alternate Modality
• Iconoclastic
• 1500 copies / edition
• Realized In Digital as UrbanObservatory.org
• Architected With “The Forces”