Manuel Herz
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Manuel Herz is an architect with his own practice in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany.
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.[1]
He was the head of research and teaching at ETH Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute and teaches at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. From 2015 to 2020 he was professor of urban and territorial design at the University of Basel. Herz has published extensively on issues of diaspora and architecture. Currently, he is researching planning strategies of refugee camps and the dilemma of humanitarian action."[2]
He presented an academic paper at the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction 2007, organized by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.
Projects
[edit]- Babyn Yar Synagogue (2021)[3]
- Maternity and Paediatric Hospital in Tambacounda, Senegal (2021)[4]
- Ballet Mécanique, Housing in Zürich, Switzerland (2018)[5]
- Housing and Creche Lyon, France (2013–15)
- Synagogue and Jewish Community Center, Mainz, Germany (2010)
- Wohn- und Geschäftshaus Cologne, Germany (2003)
Select bibliography
[edit]- Herz, Manuel (2005). "Institutionalized Experiment: The Politics of 'Jewish Architecture' in Germany". Jewish Social Studies. 11 (3): 58–66. Project MUSE 188476.
- Herz, Manuel, Making sense of Darfur[6]
- 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
References
[edit]- ^ "Firms | Archinect". archinect.com. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ "ETH Basel | Manuel Herz". Archived from the original on 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
- ^ Magazine, Wallpaper* (2021-05-08). "Ukraine's moving Babyn Yar Synagogue by Manuel Herz". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ^ "Manuel Herz encloses curvilinear hospital in Senegal with lattice brickwork". Dezeen. 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ^ Bernstein, Fred A. (2018-08-14). "In Zurich, a Building That Dances". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
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