Panopticon: The panopticon is a structure that is built such that a central viewing station provides views of the occupants of surrounding cells without allowing the cell occupants to view the observer.
Matrix: A matrix is an egalitarian arrangement of zones. The zones have no hierarchy and movement between zones is unrestricted--from each zone there are multiple zones to move into.
Reterritorialization: Reterritorialization is the reclaiming of a zone (mental or physical) so that it once again belongs to the occupant.
“In short, it arranges things in such a way that the exercise of power is not added on from the outside, like a rigid, heavy constraint, to the functions it invests, but it so subtly present in them as to increase their efficiency by itself increasing its own points of contact. The panoptic mechanism is not simply a hinge, a point of exchange between a mechanism of power and a function; it is a way of making power relations function in a function, and of making a function function through these power relations.” (Foucault, Panopticiscm)
“The matrix of connected rooms is appropriate to a type of society which feeds on carnality, which recognizes the body as a person, and which gregariousness is habitual. The features of this kind of life can be discerned in Raphaelʼs architecture and painting. Such was the typical arrangement of household space in Europe until it was challenged in the seventeenth century and finally displaced in the nineteenth by the corridor plan, which is appropriate to a society that finds carnality distasteful, which sees the body as a vessel of mind and spirit, and in which privacy is habitual.” (Evans, Figures, Doors and Passages)
“This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times. It is through a meticulous relation with the strata that one succeeds in freeing lines of flight, causing conjugated flows to pass and escape and bringing forth continuous intensities for a BwO. Connect, conjugate, continue: a while “diagram,” as opposed to still signifying and subjective programs.” (Deleuze, How do you make yourself a body without organs?)
Architects have the ability to control power through the structures the design. This is done through the ways in which visibility, traffic, and communication are allowed or restricted. By making choices in regards to these elements, the architect creates a hierarchy, thus providing or taking away power from occupants of the structure.