As part of the MIDIS ARCHI conference series, you are cordially invited by the Interior Architecture department of HEAD – Geneva to attend the lecture by Manuel Herz, which will take place on Tuesday, March 16, 2024, from 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM. 

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 a hospital in Tambacounda in eastern Senegal and a Synagogue for the Babyn Yar memorial area in Kiev, Ukraine, as well as other projects across Europe, Africa and Asia. 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 biennales and museums world wide, and acquired into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (moma), amongst others.
Manuel Herz is a leading scholar in migration-focused architecture and urbanism. His work, including books like "From Camp to City: Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara" and "African Modernism - Architecture of Independence," explores the social dynamics within refugee camps and the architectural identity of African nations post-independence. Herz has curated prestigious exhibitions, such as the National Pavilion of Western Sahara at the Venice Architecture Biennial, and contributed to collaborative projects like "Nairobi - Migration Shaping the City" and the metrobasel Comic, which examine urban development in diverse contexts.