Maria
Lorena Lehman
B.
Arch., with Honors, Virginia Tech, 1998
MDesS, with Distinction, Harvard University, 2004
Maria Lorena Lehman was recipient of the Harvard University 2004 Digital Design
Prize for the most creative use of digital media in relation to the design
profession. While at Harvard University, Lehman’s research focused on the
intersection between digital media, architectural technology and neuroscience.
In 2005, Maria Lorena Lehman was invited as a Returning Critic to evaluate student
work for Re-visions, a Master and Doctoral level course at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design. Lehman also served as Instructor for the Digital Media Skills
course for Master of Architecture students at Harvard University. Lehman
was also an Expert Teaching Assistant for the Digital Media I + II course for
Master of Architecture students at Harvard University.
Prior to research in academia, Maria Lorena Lehman was Associate of Boggs &
Partners Architects, an award-winning architecture firm located in Annapolis,
Maryland. During her six years with Boggs & Partners, she lead design efforts
on projects such as the Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel at the United
States Naval Academy, Federal Office Building 8 on Capital Hill, The Advisory
Board Commons at the Watergate Building and the Smithsonian’s National Museum
of American History in Washington DC. Lehman has worked on projects that have
won nineteen architecture awards thus far.
Maria Lorena Lehman received the 1998 Juris Jansens Memorial Award for Excellence
in Design and the 1997 Michelle Currie Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in
the Study of Architecture while at Virginia Tech.
Maria Lorena Lehman is Founder of Sensing Architecture, a digital platform
to establish, discuss and advance connections between the human sensory system
and technology for architectural design. Maria Lorena Lehman is presently writing
a manuscript on this topic.
For more detailed information visit:
http://www.sensingarchitecture.com
Publications in "Wolkenkuckucksheim – Cloud-Cuckoo-Land – Vozdushnyi zamok":
- Interpretation
and Evolution: A Scenario (issue 2/07)
mll[at]sensingarchitecture.com