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Eric Firley is of French-German nationality and was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied economics, architecture and city design in Fribourg, Lausanne, Weimar and London, and started his professional career in the real estate sector in Paris. Afterwards he worked for several years in design practices in Paris and London, before dedicating himself full-time to research and writing between 2007 and 2010. In 2011 he became assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Firley is the initiator and co-author of Wiley’s Urban Handbook Series that consists of three reference works in the field of housing, high-rise urbanism and masterplanning. He has lectured in institutions around the world, including the Skyscraper Museum and Cooper Union in NYC, the Architectural Association and Bartlett School in London, UC Berkeley, the National University of Singapore, the Parisian Planning Office (APUR), Queensland University of Technology and McGill University in Montreal.
Firley’s research has been funded by various public and private sector entities, including Grosvenor, Stanhope, the Arts Council and Design for London. His current research focuses on urban design practice, alternative models of housing production and the impact of immigration on urban form.

Edgar Sarli has been a faculty member at the University of Miami, School of Architecture since 2009. He received a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University in 2003 and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in 1999. After collaborating in the office of Rafael Moneo for five years, he founded Loeb Sarli Architects. The firm’s project-based research ranges from large-scale urban interventions to a collection of portable furniture for contemporary nomadic urbanites. The office has won awards in Switzerland and Spain, and its work has been featured in AV, Domus web, and NZZ. It has been exhibited in America and Europe, including the Architecture Biennale in Venice. Mr. Sarli is a Florida Registered Architect, and teaches Building Technology, Design, and Visual Representation.