His recent projects include the prize-winning Synagogue and Jewish Community Center in Mainz, Germany and housing projects in Germany, Switzerland, and France. He has taught at the ETH Zürich and at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is currently a professor of urban and territorial studies at the University of Basel. Manuel’s research focuses on the relationship between migration, architecture, and nation-building, and the spaces of refugee camps. He has exhibited widely, including at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, where he designed and curated the National Pavilion of the Western Sahara. This was the first time a nation-in-exile was represented at the Venice Biennale. His books include Nairobi: Migration Shaping the City, From Camp to City: Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara, and African Modernism – Architecture of Independence.