Eric Firley introduces his recently published book ‘Designing Change – Professional Mutations in Urban Design 1980-2020’ and moderates presentations followed by a discussion.
This is followed by ‘Dissolving Boundaries’ by Dennis Pieprz: https://youtu.be/Vxy_88XJaH4
The evening was hosted by AECOM and the Urban Land Institute.
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. He 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.
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