Leopoldo Torres Balbás and teaching the history of architecture: the trace of the Free Education Institution and the pedagogical method of Giner de los Ríos

Abstract

Early in his career Leopoldo Torres Balbás was deeply inspired by Giner de los Ríos and the Free Education Institution (ILE), who impressed in his thinking and his activity an acute artistic sensibility, critical thinking and professional ethics. On these foundations will base his later doctrine about the history of architecture and monumental restoration, which will include such attitudes