On 18 May, in Madrid, Guillem Carabí, lecturer and director of the Area of Composition in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, took part in the fifth edition of the International Congress of Modern Spanish Architecture Pioneers, organised by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. 

As part of this event, Carabí presented the paper “Signos de ocupación: 13 apartamentos de Barba Corsini en La Pedrera de Gaudí” [Signs of Occupation: 13 Apartments by Barba Corsini in Gaudí’s La Pedrera], in which he analysed Barba Corsini’s strategies in the project carried out between 1953-1955, his references and his link to the review of the Modern Movement in the 1950s. A project that found, in the Català-Roca’s photographs from 1955, an invaluable ally who helped raised the profile of the apartments and their historiographic construction.

As in each edition, following the initial selection of articles, the scientific committee chose the 12 that would be presented orally, as well as the group for the subsequent round table, moderated by Magda María i Serrano (UPC), Luis Martínez Santa-Maria (ETSA-UPM), Carles Muro (UPC) and Ángel Martínez García Posada (ETSA-US). 

The 12 talks and round tables will be included in a publication that will comprise the fifth volume of the collection Modern Spanish Architecture Pioneers, published by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation.