Maria Lorena Lehman is a visionary artist, designer, and author focusing on links between architec-tural design, science, and human potential as explored through her research-driven art practice. Leh-man is author of the internationally published book entitled, Adaptive Sensory Environments, which won the Silver Medal Nautilus Book Award. ArchDaily describes Maria Lorena Lehman as “one of the leading experts on delivering exceptional occupant experience through smart building design”. Her work attracts an international audience as it bridges between architectural application and univer-sal interpretation to unlock what environments can do to benefit people in innovative ways. The work of Maria Lorena Lehman is described as "evocative visual poetry of motion that is a new inspira-tion" by Daniel Smith, the company that creates watercolors for artists worldwide.
Lehman holds the degrees of Master in Design with Distinction from the Harvard University Gradu-ate School of Design in the United States, and a Bachelor of Architecture, Cum Laude, from Virginia Tech in the United States. Lehman is recipient of the Harvard University Digital Design Prize for the “most creative use of digital media in relation to the design professions”. While at Harvard Uni-versity, Lehman worked to innovate healing environments by researching at the nexus of architectural technology, digital media, and neuroscience within the Harvard Graduate School of Design, House_n. Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Neuroscience Department of the Harvard Medical School. Lehman also studied with Professor T. Kelly Wilson during the "Draw-ing from Masters" course at Harvard University.
Maria Lorena Lehman is internationally published and in numerous periodicals, including The Archi-tect's Journal, Architect Magazine, Wired, Forbes, and Vogue. Currently, her studio work looks for new ways environments can awaken individual and collective enlightenment by innovating experi-ence, 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. Maria Lorena Lehman has a vision for how interdisciplinary findings between architecture, science, philosophy, and emerging technology can un-lock more nurturing environmental futures that she envisions as new architectural possibilities through her artworks and designs that inspire, amaze, and delight in ways not experienced before.