Roshini Pushparaj

An Introduction to Critical Approaches in Architecture

BTC as an Architecture of Foucault’s Panopticism
The paper elaborates on the panoptic modality of power (pg 244) through how the Colonial system was highly reliant on discipline and conformity as a medium to exercise power and the apparent elitism that is on display even in today’s context in an establishment such as the Turf Club (a site of British origin). This essay wishes to observe how power is regulated through Foucauldian ideas of gaze and surveillance and how it exhibits Panopticism as a disciplinary power.