Duality of the architectural light environment transformation processes in the information society

The article determines the role of architectural light environment while creating comfortable living conditions. The transformation of connections between functions of lightning in the modern city, increasing interpenetration and dependencies, contradictions of functional support are revealed. The review of peculiarities when forming public lightning in the information society is given. The processes of creating new relations between psychophysiological comfort, safety and a graphic and aesthetic component of the environment are considered. In a specific context the duality of light and color organization of elements and systems of modern urban design from the position of safety and comfortable architectural light environment taking into consideration the graphic and artistic context are shown. The need for development of succession keys is justified.