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Manuel Herz (* 1969 in Düsseldorf ) is a German architect.

Life

Manuel Herz is the son of the professor of sociology at the University of Siegen Thomas Aage Herz and the lawyer and judge Ruth Herz . Manuel Herz studied architecture at RWTH Aachen University and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London . He is on the advisory board of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany and has taught in London, Rotterdam and Cambridge . Since 2006, Herz has headed the “Contemporary City” institute at the ETH Studio in Basel together with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron , where he also runs his own architecture office. Another office is located in Cologne . From 2012 to 204, Herz was also visiting professor for architectural design at the ETH Zurich . Since 2015 he has been a professor in the Urban Studies department at the University of Basel . Became known heart in Germany primarily by the construction of the style of deconstructionism held New Synagogue Mainz in 2008-2010. At the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, he designed and curated the Western Sahara Pavilion together with the National Union of Sahrawi Women.

Legal / Illegal - Cologne-Bayenthal, Goltsteinstr. 110

buildings

New Synagogue Mainz

• 2004: Legal / Illegal, Goltsteinstrasse 110, Cologne-Bayenthal
• 2010: New Synagogue Mainz
• 2017: Ballet Mécanique, Zurich
• 2017: Apartment building 'Arthron', Cologne-Bayenthal
• 2018: Social housing, Lyon
• 2018: Hospital of Tambacounda, Senegal (under construction)

Awards

• 2003: Cologne Architecture Prize for Legal / Illegal
• 2003: Architecture Prize Concrete for Legal / Illegal
• 2010: Culture Prize Art and Ethos from the Schnell und Steiner publishing house
• 2011: German facade award for ventilated curtain walls for the Jewish community center in Mainz
• 2015: Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and the Arts

literature

• MetroBasel Comic; Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Manuel Herz, ETH Studio Basel, 2009
• Synagogue Center Mainz - Light of the Diaspora; Manuel Herz (brochure)
• From Camp to City - Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara; Manuel Herz (ed.); Lars Müller Publishing House, 2012
• Nairobi, Kenya Migration Shaping the City; Shadi Rahbaran and Manuel Herz; Lars Müller Publishing House, 2014
• African Modernism - The Architecture of Independence, Manuel Herz (Ed.), Park Books, Zurich, 2015, ISBN 3-906027-74-0

Web links

• Homepage , accessed December 28, 2013

• Expression of the divine - Architect Manuel Herz explains the synagogue concept on July 28, 2009 in the Rhein Main Presse
• Light of the Diaspora Synagogue inaugurated by Manuel Herz in Mainz on September 3, 2010
• http://www.perlentaucher.de/autoren/23700/Manuel_Herz.html
• http://www.studio-basel.com/People/Manuel-Herz.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manuel Herz in portrait ( Memento from April 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Professorship Manuel Herz | Urban Studies. Retrieved July 13, 2018 . 
3. ^ Pavilion of the Western Sahara. In: www.western-sahara-pavilion.org. Retrieved July 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Legal / Illegal. Ulrich Grützner (text), Manuel Herz (photos), April 2004.
5. ↑ Architecture Prize Concrete - Prize Winner 03 ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Overall aesthetic event. Architectural Prize Concrete 2003 awarded. BauNetz, May 18, 2004.
7. ↑ Manuel Herz receives the Schnell & Steiner Culture Prize.
8. ↑ Review of the award ceremony on November 24, 2010 (Verlag Schnell und Steiner; PDF file; 2.9 MB)
9. ^ Winner of the German Facade Prize 2011: Jewish Community Center, Mainz and the brochure Excellent Architecture. German Facade Award 2011 for ventilated curtain walls (VHF) from the FVHF.