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