Maria Lorena Lehman
Website: https://marialorenalehman.com
Country: United States
Maria Lorena Lehman is an internationally recognized Futures Architect and Multimedia Artist that is founder of MLL Atelier LLC — an award-winning studio practice creating research-driven visionary art, book, and film projects where architectural design and futures thinking converges with emerging science and technology to create new frontiers for human potential, transcendent beauty, and phenomenology of space. ArchDaily introduces Lehman as “one of the leading experts on delivering exceptional occupant experience through smart building design”, and her work is described as "evocative visual poetry of motion that is a new inspiration" by Daniel Smith, the company that creates watercolors for artists worldwide. Maria Lorena Lehman holds the degrees of Master in Design with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Virginia Tech. She is internationally published and in numerous periodicals, including The Architect's Journal, Architect Magazine, Wired, Forbes, and Vogue. Currently, Maria Lorena Lehman’s studio work looks for new ways environments can awaken individual and collective enlightenment by innovating experience, which she explores deeply through her artistic and design processes. 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. To build this vision, she creates art that uses imagination to push design horizons. In 2022, MLL Atelier LLC was recipient of the THA Innovation and Design Award for Boutique Design Firm of the Year for North America.