Carles Sala has a Bachelor Degree in Architecture, graduating with honours from the ETSAB Barcelona and a Master from the AA School of Architecture in London. In 2008, together with the architect Relja Ferusic, he founded SALA FERUSIC Architects in Barcelona, an international architecture firm thatoversees multidisciplinary projects at all levels. The firm has been acknowledged by institutions such as FAD, COAC, MIT, the Venice Biennale and the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and City Planning.

At an academic level, he is currently a tutor at the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University and is also the director ofthe AA Barcelona Visiting School, an academic and research initiative of the Architectural Association ofLondon.