Buildings and our Behaviours

Do you think the buildings around us influence our behaviour? Are we really products of our environment - or is it all in the mind? ( In that you can limit the impact of your surroundings with a strong mental attitude and clear self awareness)
If you could choose to study anywhere - or spend time in a particular location which of the images below would best suit you.. which would you prefer?

I don't mean to influence you but I really like old buildings - always have. Although the desire now appears to be for most schools to become Academies there's a part of me that will miss that 'old school feel' The 'traditional' look. Will you? If we are influenced by our surroundings - will our young people grow up with the idea that things lose their value once old? Will they value the new and the shinny..just because it's..well... new and shinny? If so ( and i'm not saying they will!)- will that attitude or thought process translate to how young people view their elders? Will they see their elders as 'fonts of wisdom' - or past it?

I know it's just architecture but it's a thought 'nonetheless'
ps.. one of these buidings is Oxford University - one is a Hackney Acamdemy