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  2. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    This computer rendered video shows how Bentham's panopticon would have appeared if built. Section view of a panopticon prison drawn by Willey Reveley, circa 1791. The cells are marked with (H); a skylight (M) was to provide light and ventilation. [1] Plan view of the panopticon prison, by Reveley, 1791 [2] The word panopticon derives from the ...

  3. Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia

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    After unsuccessful attempts to interest the authorities in Ireland and revolutionary France, [36] he started trying to persuade the prime minister, William Pitt, to revive an earlier abandoned scheme for a National Penitentiary in England, this time to be built as a panopticon. He was eventually successful in winning over Pitt and his advisors ...

  4. Portal : Architecture/Selected article archive/Archive 3

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    The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700's. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe ( -opticon ) all ( pan- ) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a "sentiment of an invisible omniscience ."

  5. Willey Reveley - Wikipedia

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    Willey Reveley (1760–1799) was an 18th-century English architect, born at Newton Underwood near Morpeth, Northumberland. [1] He was a pupil of Sir William Chambers, [2] and was trained at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1781-2 he was employed (under Chambers) as assistant clerk of works at Somerset House.

  6. HM Prison Pentridge - Wikipedia

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    Pentridge Prison panopticon ruin, 2015. In 2014, archaeological work in the former prison grounds led to the discovery of three rare panopticons (named after Jeremy Bentham's prison design of 1791) located near the A and B Divisions that were built of bluestone in the 1850s. The first uncovered and excavated was to the north of A division.

  7. Samuel Bentham - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Bentham was one of two surviving children of Jeremiah Bentham. His father was an attorney, and his older brother was the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, [1] five other siblings having died in infancy or early childhood, and their mother dying in 1766.

  8. Alhambra Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Alhambra Theatre was a popular theatre and music hall located on the east side of Leicester Square, in the West End of London. It was built as the Royal Panopticon of Science and Arts, [1] opening on 18 March 1854.

  9. Presidio Modelo - Wikipedia

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    Inside one of the buildings The prison was built under the President-turned-dictator Gerardo Machado between 1926 and 1931. [ 1 ] The five circular blocks, with cells constructed in tiers around central observation posts, were built with the capacity to house up to 5,000 prisoners.