The focus of my article is on how the built environment (Baukultur) is constructed, as dynamic networks of material structures, cultural practices, and symbolic associations. Starting from examples of everyday use and drawing on socio-spatial approaches to questions of space and education, I sketch out an artistic-pedagogical perspective on how issues around the built environment are taught within education. I describe how artistic processes of engagement and representation can play a central role within this context – as a means for expressing perceived and imagined spaces, an instrument for identity-formation and self-refection, a basis for shared intersubjective discussion, and a tool for deconstructing the Euclidean world view. The article lays out theoretical foundations of this approach and its application in the context of my ongoing dissertation project.