Manuel Herz is an architect with his own practice in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany.

Homepage	http://www.manuelherz.com/
Blog	http://roundtable.kein.org/blog/8

"He was educated at the RWTH Aachen in Germany and at the Architectural Association in London. He has received numerous prizes and awards, published widely on Jewish architecture in Germany and has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and KTH Stockholm."

"He is the head of research and teaching at ETH

Eth

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 Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute and teaches at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Manuel has published extensively on issues of diaspora

Diaspora

A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

 and architecture. Currently, he is researching on the topic of planning strategies of refugee camps and the dilemma of humanitarian action."

"He presented an academic paper at the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction 2007, which was organized by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction

Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction

The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction is a non-profit organization. Its goal is to raise awareness to the role that architecture, engineering, urban planning and construction have in achieving a sustainable built future...

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Projects

• Synagogue and Jewish Community Center, Mainz, Germany
• 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