This book presents the state-of-the-art in exhibition design for trade fair shows. A very well researched discussion and illustrated retrospective opens the volume and sets up the dramatic highlights of recent trade shows staged in Germany and Switzerland. About thirty contemporary stands created for companies like Mercedes-Benz, Villeroy and Bosch and BMW display the latest technology and new ideas employed by architects and designers such as Philippe Starck and Richard Meier. Temporary Buildings is lavish in its presentation, it is fact-filled, essential for the professional designer, and provides the company executive with a wealth of ideas and stimuli. Originally published as a $110 hardcover, this paperback edition makes Temporary Buildings truly affordable. Winner of the prestigious German art book award, designating Temporary Buildings as ''one of the most beautiful books of the year''.