MLL Atelier LLC is an award-winning design studio creating research-driven projects at the intersection of architectural design and futures thinking, with specialization at the frontier of human potential, transcendent beauty, and phenomenology of space. Founded by futures architect Maria Lorena Lehman, this innovative studio practice creates spatial poetics not experienced before, by finding new interdisciplinary connections between a multitude of fields, including: neuroscience, physics, captology, and philosophy. MLL Atelier wins awards for projects and publications internationally, while also disseminating educational resources through the Atelier's Academy of Poetics that pioneers research-driven outcomes worldwide. 

TOWARDS BLOOMVISM

I create in a style that I call Bloomvism. This is derived from the floriculture term for “bloom” which means "to flower into full beauty or health". It is my hope that with Bloomvism as a new artistic style, I can bring a new vision of harmony to help humanity progress into our next evolution in ways that pioneer a better world. Thus, I define Bloomvism as an artistic practice, design philosophy, and environmental system of harmonization for visualizing “architectural blooms” that uplevel consciousness and increase the actualization of highest human potential.

To embody Bloomvism within my paintings, sculptures, and designs, I create (semi)abstract representations and/or speculations of reality that have never been seen due to the physical nature of the Universe and unimagined technology. For example, my “Echoes of Time” painting captures the moment of first light that turns night into day, my “Metamorphosis from Within” painting deconstructs transcendent symbiosis, my “Refracting the Speed of Light” painting orchestrates variations in matter to bend light symphonically, my “Dual Façade” painting imagines the ultimate convergence of architectural form that spans distances of time, space, and cultural evolution, and my “Edge of Infinity” sculpture depicts how the evolution of choice drives beauty and diversity within growth. My mission is for Bloomvism to guide humanity to see and design beyond what we sense, to grow understanding and imagination into the hidden, complex, and ethereal qualities and systems that drive the Universe to yield its profound and nurturing harmonious beauty. In this way, Bloomvism transports people into deepest realities that awaken and heighten our perception and creation of what harmonious beauty can make possible in our world.

IMMERSIONS INTO HIDDEN REALMS

By primarily working with painting, sculpture, film, and book authorship to create visionary environmental artefacts of Bloomvism, my research-driven practice blurs boundaries by strategically bridging architecture, science, and philosophy with technological innovation. I create to explore the poetic dynamics between the built environment, human beings, nature, and the cosmos, to yield applications and universal interpretations that invite deepening immersion into the never-before-seen realms depicted in my visionary designs:

✚ At a far distance, my creations are gateways into new realms of natural and built environments, inviting viewers into their grand principles that drive their narrative stories and systems in simplest form.

✚ At a medium distance, my creations reveal the deep orchestration between natural and/or built environmental entities that drive inherent stories and systems into full harmony. From this nearer perspective, such orchestrations act as "bridges" that create deep synergy between humanity and nature.

✚ At a close distance, the stories and systems within my creations unfold. This is where each new natural or built visionary realm strategically invites attention and focus, so one may awaken through a paradigm shift that changes how one perceives and shapes the world.

In essence, I am building worlds that “bloom”.

NURTURING HARMONY

I get my inspiration from the juxtaposition between the beauty and harmony that blooms in the natural world compared to the discord and missed opportunities for beauty that erodes our humanmade world. My mission with Bloomvism is to close this gap, so that what we make as a humanity can rise to enter into beautiful and harmonious symbiosis with the natural world, where both bloom and thrive. Yet, to do this, humanity needs to see and design beyond “surface beauty and function” by turning challenge into new possibility so we, as citizens of Earth, can optimally shape our creations that shape us in return. In this way, we may heighten our awareness, compassion, and creativity as a humanity to evolve a better world nurtured into full harmonious health, beauty, and meaning.