Eric Firley

February 09, 2011
Lecturer(s): Eric Firley

Eric Firley joined the School of Architecture faculty in January of this year. Born as a French-German in Dusseldorf, he studied architecture and city design at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Bahabus in Weimar and the London School of Economics. Between 2000 and 2007 he worked in the fields of real estate (Jones Lang LaSalle, Paris), architecture (Atelier Yves Lion, Paris) and urban design (john McAslan & Partners, London), before setting up a consultancy un urban research. He has published The Urban Housing Handbook (2009), The Urban Towers Handbook (available June 2011), and is currently finishing The Master Planning Handbook (2012). He has been a lecturer at the Bartlett School in London, and has given presentations in many institutions worldwide, including Cooper Union and the Architectural League in New York, the Architectural Association in London and National University of Singapore. Firley is currently teaching Urban Design Theory in the School’s Master of Urban Design program.