The dream of the Cuerpo de arquitectos municipales de España, a professional associative experience with a clear technocratic will 1928-1950

In 1928, a group of active municipal architects, led by Ricard Giralt Casadesús (Barcelona, 1884-1970), founded an association aimed at defining the role of the architect at the service of the local administration. The Corps of Municipal Architects of Spain (known by its initials in Spanish CAME, Cuerpo de Arquitectos Municipales de España) was the result of a pioneering experience of self-management of its own corporate profile, a deep-rooted social engagement and a political will to intervene in municipal life as an instrument of progress. The objective is to describe the process of definition of the professional group of municipal architects of the 20th century, together with the consolidation of the model of contemporary municipal administration, through the technocratic drive of its main actors, in the fields of architecture and urbanism.