This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built
environment. Expanding on discussions from previous collections Spaces of Surveillance: States
and Selves (2017) and Surveillance Race Culture (2018) this book seeks to explore instances
of surveillance within and around specific architectural entities both historical and
fictitious buildings with specific social purposes and those existing in fiction film
photography performance and art. Providing new readings of and expanding on Foucault's work
on the panopticon these essays examine the role of surveillance via disparate fields of
enquiry such as the humanities social sciences technological studies design and
environmental disciplines. Surveillance Architecture and Control seeks to engender new debates
about the nature of the surveilled environment through detailed analyses of architectural
structures and spaces examining how cultural geographical and built space buttress and
produce power relations. The various essays address the ongoing fascination with contemporary
notions of surveillance and control.
