Art, architecture and teaching. Freedom spaces in the White Cube and the discipline

Abstract

The new building of the Faculty of Education at the University of Lleida, designed by Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, was constructed in the last decade. The building is one of the many cases that show the unsuitability of the architectural heritage of Spain in relation to the new educational framework advocated by the European Space for Higher Education, started five years ago. After the detection of this contradiction and based on various theoretical frameworks such as the devices and Foucauldian disciplinary mechanisms of control, the White Cube by O'Doherty, the Broken Windows Theory by Wilson and Kelling among others like the Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome. We will characterize the building and show different strategies conceiving as an educational space and educational contexts generated by the authors so that it becomes a space in which all of us can learn, taking into account that this is a building in which professionals for the world of education are educated.