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Transform your architectural designs into masterpieces that resonate deeply with human emotion by joining the Poetic Architecture Institute (PAI). Led by visionary Maria Lorena Lehman, PAI equips designers with techniques to integrate sensory experiences, narrative elements, and cutting-edge workflows into their projects. Membership not only enhances creativity but also empowers you to create meaningful, future-forward designs that truly make a difference. Joining the Poetic Architecture Institute is essential for environmental design professionals seeking to create transformative, emotionally resonant spaces. With innovative tools, masterclasses, and expert guidance, PAI empowers you to elevate your design practice, integrate cutting-edge ideas, and shape a legacy of meaningful, future-ready designs.
What if you could
turn your building designs...
From predictable to poetic?
From stressful to masterful?
From redundant to revolutionary?
Introducing the...
Deeply "move" occupants emotionally by designing for experiential flow and sense of place that extends beyond programmatic project requirements.
Skyrocket your design concept quality by using narrative techniques, language evolution, and metaphor interpretations to create more authentic beauty with elegant function and profound meaning.
Roadmap your strategy and plan to become a master poet of architectural space by learning how to design high-impact phenomenological architecture.
Develop your own unique design ideation experiments that harness classical and hi-tech design tools so your workflow becomes a true extension of your creative mind that imagines, designs, and visualizes highest-level architectural poetics.
Participate in poetic design workshops where you can get feedback on your project through leading-edge 30-day design challenges.
Unlock wisdom from pioneering icons by finding poetic inspiration from the masterworks of the world's leading architectural design thinkers and practitioners: through their books, buildings, and design beliefs.
Leverage high-impact design tools & workflows that nurture your poetic design thinking and creation, all while speeding up your design process to help you make even better design decisions that give you that extra edge.
Gain a competitive advantage with live updates in the Innovation Dashboard that positions you to invent the future with foresight and analysis of megatrends, new industry discoveries, and emerging opportunities for growth.
It's about more than buildings.
It's about more than architecture.
It's our next evolution.
Do you want your firm's designs to matter?
To make a difference in the world?
To build a body of work you are proud of?
It's time to create and uplevel your biggest and best design ideas for environmental design that will shape the future for generations to come.
Let's make it happen.
Let's architect a poetic world.
About the Founder of PAI
Described as "one of the leading experts on delivering exceptional occupant experience through smart building design", Maria Lorena Lehman is an award-winning author, foresight architect, and visionary artist that is recipient of the Harvard University Digital Design Prize for "the most creative use of digital media in relation to the design professions". The artwork of Maria Lorena Lehman is described as "evocative visual poetry of motion that is a new inspiration" by Daniel Smith, the company that creates watercolors for artists worldwide.
Maria Lorena Lehman holds the degrees of Master in Design with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the United States, and a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Virginia Tech in the United States. Lehman also studied with Professor T. Kelly Wilson during the "Drawing from Masters" course at Harvard University.
Maria Lorena Lehman is founder of MLL ATELIER — a studio practice creating research-driven visionary art projects where architectural design and futures thinking converges with emerging science and technology to create new frontiers for human potential, transcendent beauty, and phenomenology of space. MLL ATELIER research drives global education initiatives through the Poetic Architecture Institute.
PAI Membership is 100% online and serves architectural designers globally.
See what architects are saying worldwide about the teachings of PAI Founder, Maria Lorena Lehman...
"I present this testimony to express my gratitude and admiration for this website and the lecturer's outstanding performance, which shows abundant knowledge and strong presentation. These lectures by Maria Lorena Lehman have benefited me in my scientific life as a university professor and my professional practices as an architect.
I always wish her good luck."
— Dr. Usama Konbr | Associate Professor
Architectural Engineering Department
“I was challenged with learning how to touch the soul through environmental design. Since learning from Maria Lorena Lehman, I now understand how through design beauty is not only seen with our physical senses, but also with our soul and spirit."
— Deyanira Khouri | Architect
"After being in architecture both academically and within the industry for over 20 years, I feel as though what Maria Lorena Lehman teaches brings to light long lost and forgotten components, secrets, and keys to creating hi-functionality and attentive design. Something computers don’t often provide when the designer is in the trenches."
— Archtitude | Architect (5-Star Review)
Roadmap: Become a poet of architecture.
Masterclass: Design to illuminate the soul.
Ideation: Expand your creative design mind.
Workflows: Push your skillset beyond limits.
Workshops: Get poetic design feedback.
Tools: The power of poetics in your hands.
Case Studies: World-leading masterworks.
Journal: Grow your career success.
Course: On Adaptive Sensory Environments.
Dashboard: Innovate poetics with foresight.
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“Maria Lorena Lehman is a visionary and forward-thinking author and designer. Her books and advice are an endless source of inspiration and they truly embody the future and progress of the physical space and people. She has a 360 degree vision and therefore her advice makes you broaden your imagination, and drives you through your design path. Her suggestions have helped me many times to understand the strengths of my ideas as well as its weaknesses, and have given me the means to develop every project in unpredicted ways.”
— Andrea Saliola | CEO at Pixies, Forbes under 30
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