[3] The institute broadly defined "information architecture[4]" as: The Information Architecture Institute was founded in 2002 by Peter Morville, Lou Rosenfeld, Erin Malone, Lisa Chan, Christina Wodtke, Andrew Hinton, Michael Angeles, Jesse James Garrett, Karl Fast, Thomas Vander Wal, Jess McMullin and Todd Wilkens.
[5] The founding board, elected in 2002, consisted of Christina Wodtke, President, Lou Rosenfeld, Treasurer, Victor Lombardi, Secretary, Peter Morville and John Zapolski.
These first members were of crucial importance to make progress to the IAI's first projects: The Institute at its foundation, with its mission of advance in the field of shared information environments, defined goals for the first year: The Institute was founded with seed money from its founding members.
The Journal of Information Architecture is an independent initiative of REG-iA, the Research & Education Group in IA.
Remaining funds were transferred to World IA Day, Inc., which was formed less than a month after the IAI dissolution.