Manuel Herz is an architect with his own practice in

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, Switzerland and

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. He was educated at the RWTH Aachen in Germany and at the

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in London. He has received numerous prizes and awards, published widely on Jewish architecture in Germany and has taught at the

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in London and KTH Stockholm. He was the head of research and teaching at

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Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute and teaches at

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’s Graduate School of Design with

Jacques Herzog Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,
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and

Pierre de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,
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. From 2015 to 2020 he was professor of urban and territorial design at the

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. Herz has published extensively on issues of diaspora and architecture. Currently, he is researching planning strategies of

refugee camps A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for internally displaced peop ...

and the dilemma of humanitarian action." He presented an academic paper at the

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2007, organized by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.

Projects

* Babyn Yar Synagogue (2021) *Maternity and Paediatric Hospital in

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, Senegal (2021) *Ballet Mécanique, Housing in Zürich, Switzerland (2018) *Housing and Creche Lyon, France (2013–15) * Synagogue and Jewish Community Center, Mainz, Germany (2010) *Wohn- und Geschäftshaus Cologne, Germany (2003)

Select bibliography

*Herz, Manuel, Institutionalized Experiment: The Politics of "Jewish Architecture" in Germany, Jewish Social Studies – Volume 11, Number 3, Spring/Summer 2005 (New Series), pp. 58–66 *Herz, Manuel, Making sense of Darfur *Herz, Manuel with Herzog, Jacques and de Meuron, Pierre: MetroBasel – The Model of a European Metropolitan Region (2009) *Herz, Manuel, From Camp to City – Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara, Lars Müller Publishers (2012) *Herz, Manuel and Rahbaran, Shadi: Nairobi: Migration Shaping the City, Lars Müller Publishers (2013) *Herz, Manuel: African Modernism – The Architecture of Independence, Park Books (2015) // award: FILAF D'OR 2015

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