Biographical notes
1964 Grafschaft Hoya an der Weser, Germany
1984 – 1991 Architectural studies, UdK Berlin
1987 Summer Academy, Großstadtarchitektur Berlin with Hans Kollhoff and Fritz Neumeyer
1988 AA London
1992 Diploma, UdK Berlin
1993 – 1994 DAAD – Grant, University of Tokyo
1994 Master, University of Tokyo
1994 – 1997 PhD – Course, University of Tokyo, OHNO-LAB, Architectural and Urban Design
1999 – 2006 Assistant Professor, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Faculty of Architecture
2004 Visiting Fellow, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
since 2007 Own Practice:  heikehanada_laboratory of art and architecture
2009 Artist in Residenz, Friedrich Nietzsche Kolleg Weimar
2010 Professorship, FH Potsdam, Potsdam School of Architecture

Prizes
2007 International Competition „City Library of Stockholm“- 1. Prize
2008 International Residential Design Competition JAPAN ARCHITECT 2008 “Four Square House Design Problem – Homage to John Hejduk” - 1. Prize
2010 International Competition „New Cemetry at Järvafältet Stockholm“ – Honourable Mention
2011 International Competition „Restaurant am Neuen Palais - Schlosspark Sanssouci Potsdam“ - 2. Prize
2012 International Competition „Neues Bauhaus-Museum Weimar“ - 1. Prize

Biographical notes
Based in Basel, Switzerland, Manuel Herz Architects is an architectural practice that is embedded in research, and is operating on a very wide range of typologies, locations and scales, from the architectural to the urban and territorial. Its completed projects include the Synagogue of Mainz, an apartment building „Ballet Mécanique“ in Zurich with moving facades, and a social housing project with a kindergarten in Lyon. Presently under development are a hospital in Tambacounda in eastern Senegal, a large-scale residential complex comprising over 200 apartments in Cologne, a masterplan and Synagogue for the Babyn Yar memorial area in Kiev, Ukraine, as well as other projects across Europe and the African continent. Beyond the architectural scale, Manuel Herz has been active in furniture and exhibition design, as well as in urban master planning and urban research. His projects have won numerous international design awards, have been exhibited in museums world wide, and acquired into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), amongst others. His office currently employs twelve people.

Manuel Herz‘s research focuses on the architecture and urbanism of migration. His book „From Camp to City: Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara“ documents how refugee camps can be places of social emancipation. At the Architecture Biennial in Venice in 2016, Manuel Herz curated and designed the National Pavilion of Western Sahara. His award-winning book „African Modernism - Architecture of Independence“ presents the architecture of countries such as Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Zambia at the time of their independence in the 1960s and 1970s. The parallel exhibition shown at the Vitra Design Museum is currently touring cities in Europe, the US, and Africa. He has also co-authored the book „Nairobi - Migration Shaping the City“ and the MetroBasel Comic, an urban study of the tri-national region of Basel.

Professional activity
1992 Course in “CAD modulation” in Paris – Opens Hitthaler architecture studio in Brunico
1996 Foundation and cooperation with building management firm Hitthaler KG of Brunico
1998 Participation in third convention for passive houses in Bregenz
1999 3rd prize with Pescoller passive house – “Intelligent Building” competition for houses with low energy consumption
2002 1st prize in the Casa Clima competition in Brunico – Joint 1st prize in architecture award in Alto Adige – maso Steger – 1st prize in Limited competition for a cooperative – B15 G1 (completed)
2003 1st prize – Limited competition for a cooperative – B15 G2 (completed)
2004 1st prize – Competition by invitation for expansion of civic museum of Bolzano (with architect Schwienbacher/in progress)
2005 1st prize – Limited competition for a cooperative – B16 G2 (completed)  
2006 “Exhibition in Ceggia: General Membrane – Young architects below 40”
2006 bis Lecturer at Architecture faculty of University of Ferrara  
2008  Exhibition Manifesta – grundlos glücklich – mag mich oder schlag mich
Work group
Co-initiator of “Air conditioned zone” concept,
based on compaction of existing residential areas with increase in energy efficiency.