Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Apartment No. 1
Omid Khodapanahi.

11/05/13

Apartment No. 1

Utilizing local masonry offcuts and milled wood, this building manages to inhabit a vernacular material vocabulary while exploring new and interesting formal ideas. At a time when there is so much focus on preposterous grand projects or startling but inappropriate use of materials this is an intelligently elegant project.

via-Deezeen
"It would seem that the importance of smell as a means of spacial orientation and localization is often heightened in tropical forest environments. This is perhaps because odours abound in the dense forest atmosphere while vision is restricted."
- Classen, Howes & Synnott, 1994, Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell