Bio
Maria Lorena Lehman is an award-winning foresight architect and visionary artist that focuses on links between architectural design, scientific discovery, emerging technology, and human potential. Within her creative practice, she uses research-driven digital media, filmmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and writing to push architectural design in ways that imagine new futures for our world. Lehman is described as “one of the leading experts on delivering exceptional occupant experience through smart building design”, and she is author of the internationally published award-winning book entitled, Adaptive Sensory Environments. Maria Lorena Lehman is also recipient of the Harvard University Digital Design Prize for the “most creative use of digital media in relation to the design professions”, and her projects have been described as "diving into the heart" of environmental design.
Lehman holds the degrees of Master in Design with Distinction from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Virginia Tech. She has served as Instructor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and continues to serve as Review Editor for peer-review journals internationally. Maria Lorena Lehman is widely published in a multitude of books, research journals, and is in numerous periodicals including Architect Magazine, The Architect's Journal, Rethinking the Future, ArchDaily, and Forbes.
Consistently at the core of her work is a motivation to push the role of environments into more proactive symphonic realms that empower people to thrive and achieve fulfillment at their highest potential. Maria Lorena Lehman is founder of MLL ATELIER, a multi award-winning studio based in the United States that was named Boutique Design Firm of the Year for North America. Additionally, Lehman is recipient of the Harmony for Humanity: Global Consciousness Art Prize, as well as the International Leonardo da Vinci Prize. Her works are shown in galleries, art fairs, and museums internationally, including New York, Barcelona, Miami, London, and Paris.
As Maria Lorena Lehman forges new paths for harmonic environments, she aims to help create a world where all thrive. This is why her creations are said to be "evocative visual poetry of motion that is a new inspiration". Currently, her studio work looks for new ways environments can uplift quality of life by innovating experience, which she explores deeply through her creative process. At the heart of her work is a motivation to push the role of environments into more proactive realms that empower people to thrive and achieve fulfillment at their highest potential. Maria Lorena Lehman has a vision for how interdisciplinary findings between architecture, science, philosophy, and emerging technology can unlock more nurturing environmental futures that she envisions as new architectural possibilities through her artworks that inspire, amaze, and delight in ways not experienced before.
