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

Qatar National Convention Centre
Nelson Garrido

23/08/13

Qatar National Convention Centre

Arata Isozaki juxtaposes the sinuous arboreal lines with sleekly modern forms and materials. Where so many architects fail completely to animate either the fanciful gestures of CAD manipulation or the dull and redundant boxes of modernism, this building reimagines both into a wonderful harmony which is both graceful and imposing.

Deezeen
"Baudelaire called the smell of a room "the soul of the apartment" and references to the olfactory nature of architecture are essential to defining the mood and the emotional tenor of a place."
- Jim Drobnick, 2002, Volatile Architectures [Crime and Ornament]