Architecture influences behaviour

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2010/12/wharf-november-lunchtime.html

Above: on the Russell Davis site is this short digital film of Canary Wharf one snowy lunchtime. The film is very atmospheric, and the use of the chiming music adds an Einsenstein touch. Watching this film made me think about the impersonal nature of the Canary Wharf architecture.



Above: Gillian Tett has written about the anthropological significance of the Docklands development. We know that architecture influences behaviour more than is generally realised. Is there something about the quasi-fascist buildings on Canary Wharf that has made the bankers who work there think they are Nietzschean supermen?