2001-02-16 A crucial guide to the Swiss pavilion at Hanover Expo 2000

This book uses an encyclopaedic method to explain the conception, construction and completion to the Swiss Pavilion at the Hanover Expo 2000. It typifies the depth and care that Zumthor gives to any of his projects, giving the reader insights into every aspect of the pavilion, and into Swiss culture itself. This book is a must if you wish to understand the pavilion and how and why it was created and consrtructed in the fashion that it was, from how the timber walls will cure and shrink throughout the duration of the expo, to explanations of texts projected onto the pavilion walls relating to swiss history or contemporary thinking. Basically this is a great little porthole into the qualities of Swiss life. Buy it!