Pantheon of Wonder (Journal)
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Strategy: Building that Broadcasts Real-Time Information
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Strategy: Consider Your Building Message to Outside Observers
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Strategy: Do Not Integrate Technology as an Afterthought
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Strategy: During Design Concept Formation Consider Design Alignment
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Strategy: Encourage New Human Behaviors Within Your Building Design
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Strategy: Explore Your Material’s Static and Transient Qualities
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Strategy: Find Creative Ways to Detail within Your Building
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Strategy: Find New Ways To Sculpt A Ceiling
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Strategy: Give Attention to Transition Between Architectural Elements
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Strategy: Have Your Design Answer to Scale
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Strategy: How Will Your Building Look As New Perspectives Emerge?
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Strategy: Interact with Nature to Innovate an Entirely New Experience
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Your invitation:
Dear reader,
I believe life is a continual process of awakening. As the journey of my own life continues, I always find myself connecting my experiences, studies, and ideas to new creative projects that bring beauty, inspiration, and hope for our world. For over 30 years, since starting at age 17, I have immersed myself in architectural design; and early on, I earned a Master of Design with Distinction from Harvard University, setting the foundation for decades of deep immersion in the field. Yet even before this, I held music close to my heart. At the age of 5, I began my first piano lessons; and since then, I began to see the world through a musical lens — even while designing architecture.
Over the decades, I grew closer and closer to music with a deep love for the design of instruments, their unique timbres, and for all the immersive ways their sounds could be interwoven into beautiful orchestrated compositions. I even began to develop a musical composition methodology, Spatial Symphonics, as I found my architectural design work becoming more and more emotive, soul-stirring, and yes: musical.
In recent years, I finally turned my focus to music composition. I hold a Graduate Diploma from the Film Scoring Academy of Europe where my works have been recorded by the acclaimed European Recording Orchestra (ERO), and I am founder of MLL ATELIER® — an award-winning studio now dedicated to my work as an orchestral composer, recording artist, and spatial symphonist — where I advance architectural design through music, and innovate music through an architectural design lens.
It is my hope that I can share my ongoing musical-design journey with you, directly from my studio through my video-newsletter entitled 'Orchestral Notes'. Expect video updates filled with first-access studio news announcing: album/book releases, concert premiers, sheet music publications, creative process sneak-peeks, and my own compositional philosophies as they develop to fuel my ongoing body of musical and architectural authorial works.
I would love for you to join me for this exciting adventure.
Simply click the button below to join my Orchestral Notes video-newsletter delivered every two weeks directly to your email inbox. Plus, get access to the full publication archives.
Let’s enjoy the beauty, inspiration, and hope that music brings.
Thank you for joining me on this wondrous journey.
Warmly,
Maria Lorena Lehman
Founder of MLL ATELIER® | Orchestral Notes