Development of communicative properties

of nature and landscape complexes

Topchiy Irina, Ph.D. (architecture)Moscow architectural institute (State Academy)

Pre-study courses department directore-mail: top@markhi.ru

The Great Hall of The Cooper Union (NY, USA) 2015

Since the mid-19th century the role of leaders in the society became decisive. Architecture formed those opportunities in response supported by the authorities and

the society.

The Great Hall in 1865

In 1859 Peter Cooper creat a new educational establishment like a center of public and political life of the country. The building stood aside for its gigantic Great Hall which

could assembly up to 900 persons.

Lincoln's Cooper Union Address in 1860

It hosted lectures and social events. Among its outstanding participants were US prominent politicians, public figures and writers – Abraham Lincoln, Frederic Douglas,

Henry James and Mark Twain.

In 2008 President Obama, then a senator, gave a speech in The Great Hall

Thanks to its “public character” the Cooper Union remains a most prestige college of arts in the world [1]. The Cooper Union graduates - architects Daniel Libeskind, Toshiko Mori,

Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) carry on a tradition of public activity