Hebelstrasse 81
4056 Basel
Manuel Herz Architekten is an architecture and urban design firm based in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany. The newly constructed buildings include the Mainz Jewish Community Center, the mixed-use "Legal / Illegal" building in Cologne, and a museum (with Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal) in Ashdod, Israel. Current projects include residential construction projects in Cologne, Zurich and Lyon. The projects have been awarded several prizes, including the German Façade Prize 2011, the Cologne Architecture Prize 2003, the German Architecture Prize for Concrete 2004 and a nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Prize for European Architecture 2011.
Manuel Herz studied at RWTH Aachen University and the Architectural Association in London. After teaching at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he was head of teaching and research at ETH Studio Basel - Institute of the Contemporary City. After a visiting professorship at ETH Zurich in 2012-2014, he was appointed Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Basel. In addition to his work as a practicing architect, he researches and publishes on the relationship between architecture and nation building as well as on refugee camps. His books include "From Camp to City - The Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara" (Lars Müller Publishers) and "African Modernism - Architecture of Independence" (Park Books Publishers).
