Jun 16, 2025
Content architecture is a part of information architecture. Saul Wurman, who is credited with creating the term ‘information architecture,’ defines the information architect as ‘The individual who organizes the patterns inherent in data, making the complex clear.’ In content, a content architecture organizes the patterns inherent in content, making the complex clear. Content architecture addresses the problem of disorganized, inconsistent, and hard-to-find information. Even something as small as a single book has a content architecture.
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Over the last three years, I have worked with Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and Robert E. Horn’s Information Mapping. My goal was to create reusable and machine-readable technical documentation for both human readers and generative AI. Alexander warned against modularity because it risks losing the relationships inherent in good design. Despite this, modularity became necessary. Technical documentation requires clarity, consistency, and precision. Modular structures achieve these qualities. To address the tension between Alexander’s organic approach and Horn’s structured methodology, I adopted Horn’s Information Mapping.
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