Books
Deepening Design
An Illustrated Novel in Verse
Deepening Design by Maria Lorena Lehman awakens a beautiful pathway to grow your creative genius. You will see the world differently. You will see yourself differently. And your design creativity and innovation will more profoundly help our world to reach new possibility. To evolve your creativity, Deepening Design unveils 10 key design principles strategically positioned within the “Cycle of Awareness” — guiding you to forge your creative path in ways that also deepen fulfillment for those that experience your designs. In essence, this allegorical book is a “deepening design” that never ends, as you will grow your creative genius more deeply with each reading. With 42 magnificent color images presented, this illustrated book in verse invites you into the design evolution of a “form” that is both an external artefact and a representation of our internal self. Thus, Deepening Design is a call for humanity to design and actualize our dream future for a world where all thrives. And for this, the awakening and growth of your own creative genius truly matters. Yet will humanity evolve by “deepening design” so we can actualize our highest potential? Or will humanity regress because we never fully leverage “deepening design”? The choice is ours, and the design of our future calls upon you.
Adaptive Sensory Environments
Silver Medal Nautilus Book Award Winner
Academic Monograph
Adaptive Sensory Environments by Maria Lorena Lehman won a Silver Medal Nautilus Book Award in the Creative Process category. The book presents “a cutting-edge methodology for adaptive sensory design by fostering an inter-disciplinary approach in which aspects of neuroscience, biophilia, captology, nanotechnology, kinetics, and sensemaking all play critical roles in helping adaptive architecture ‘tune’ to occupants.” Established in the US in 1998, the annual Nautilus Book Awards recognize books that are conscious catalysts for positive change toward a better world. Previous winners include Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Bringing Architecture to the Next Level, 4th Edition
Architectural Design Guidebook
Do your architectural designs foster well-being in occupants? Do your designs innovate architecture technology in new ways? And do you make design decisions that pull from the latest scientific findings, including biomimicry design or where design meets neuroscience? In Bringing Architecture to the Next Level by Maria Lorena Lehman, you will discover how to solve the six greatest design challenges that hinder all architects. And when you unlock these six keys, you position your architectural design process to achieve its highest potential. Within this one-hour guidebook, you will shift your mindset to reach breakthrough ideas, meet and predict occupant need using sensory design, leverage your design process to get more with less, and rethink technology to unleash your innovative edge. For both architecture and interior design professionals alike, Bringing Architecture to the Next Level will help you integrate innovation in architecture to create environments where people thrive.