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What Is The ArchiSensing Method? And How Can It Help You?
Well, sensory design can help with all of this.
Because of this, your designs can reach their fullest potential. You will struggle less to come up with a winning design concept, and your design process won’t take as long. You’ll get stuck during design less — and if you do get stuck, you’ll know how to decide on what to do next. Plus, your building occupants will truly enjoy your buildings.
And what does this mean for you?
The ArchiSensing Design Method will give you more to rely upon than simply finding inspiration to fuel your designs ahead. You’ll be given strategic design shortcuts to help you realize design breakthroughs that will keep your clients coming back for more. And along with all of that, you’ll also be proud knowing that you’re creating architecture that helps occupants, by uplifting their quality of life.
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What You Get
Each core module lesson is taught using text with images and diagrams, and each module also comes with an mp3 audio lecture narration — so you can listen to the module as well as read it. To review the exact curriculum for all twelve modules: click 
This Principles resource page provides you with the fundamental and critical specific mindset guidelines that you should target as you work to boost your ArchiSensing Design expertise. Follow each principle, and your design approach, process, and end-results will vastly improve. 
Access this Sensory Design Case Studies Presentation to see sensory design in action within existing built environments. This video presentation is filled with beautiful image vignettes of such environments from which Maria Lorena Lehman will teach you about how each of the five classical senses (vision, aural, haptic, olfaction, and taste) relates to architectural design. The goal is to get you thinking about these senses as you work on your own architectural design projects. Watch this video for some great ideas, guiding principles, and valuable inspiration. 
This Advanced Lesson will teach you how to bridge the gap between architecture and other disciplines, which is critical for innovation and evolution in architectural design today. By pulling from other disciplines, your design thinking, processes, and solutions will be on-point for your occupants in renewed ways — redefining valuable environmental design. 
When you send in your testimonial about how this ArchiSensing Design Lab course is helping you, you will get immediate access to this Bonus Lesson on Architecural Concept Design. Often, this is the realm that architecture scholars and practitioners struggle with most — thus, this fresh approach to concept design is aimed to help you get to the core of any design challenge. 
The Design Lab Forum is a great way to interact with other ArchiSensing students and with the course’s creator, Maria Lorena Lehman. Within the forum, you can ask questions about the course, share design ideas and get feedback on them, or simply collaborate with other students. Really the possibilities are endless. Testimonials on Maria’s Work
[...] I’ve been following your [work] for quite some time now and I’m a big fan and love everything you post. It’s just soooo interesting and you talk about issues no one ever told me about during my university years, and for that i’m truly grateful.
Discovering your [work] was like discovering a whole new way of approaching architecture, and definitely a new path in my designing. Thank you Maria!!
- — Monica
I am so happy to have discovered your studies during my research late last night. I read it way into the night. I am a designer and a college educator specializing in teaching and designing[...]. This past year I have been developing and teaching a course that intertwines human factors with an evidence based design approach [...]. Beauty, environmental concerns, creativity, function, and safety are all an integral part of the design solution.
Your book reinforces so many of the principles in the class and also introduces many more ideas and thoughts. I really appreciated the information and will share the insights with my students. I appreciated your book and your willingness to share your wonderful insights so much. It [is] very good and I thank you.
- — Diane
How You’ll Benefit From This ArchiSensing Course
More Clients + Dream Projects
Become a more notable and respected architect by bringing greater value to clients, and getting more repeat business as you grow with each new project.
- Design more creative solutions
- Gain strategic design expertise
- Solve for more complex problems
- Improve how you “sell” your design
More Effective Buildings
Boost building beauty, comfort, and happiness levels for occupants by learning how to enhance their experience through architecture using ArchiSensing techniques.
- Leverage your design process
- Create award-winning designs
- Pull from latest innovations
- Boost quality and performance
Step Ahead as a Design Leader
Become a leader within the architectural discipline by understanding how latest advancements all “fit together” so you can advance your own work.
- Instant ArchiSensing Forum Member
- Connect with Maria Lorena Lehman
- Get help applying course concepts
- Gain insight on your design work
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About Maria Lorena Lehman
Sensing Architecture and the ArchiSensing Design Lab are created by Maria Lorena Lehman, an architectural designer, author, and researcher from the United States. Maria holds a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors (BArch, 1998) from Virginia Tech and a Master in Design with Distinction (MDesS, 2004) from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
In her role as an Associate at a notable architecture firm, Maria worked on numerous award-winning architectural projects. Additionally, she has also received a wide-range of scholarly honors. Maria Lorena Lehman has served as an instructor and returning critic at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Currently, her research focuses on links between the human sensory system and new technology for architectural design.
The work of Maria Lorena Lehman is internationally published. Her research paper entitled Interpretation and Evolution: A Scenario was published in The International Journal for Architectural Theory, a peer-review journal based in Germany. In 2011, her latest research paper entitled, How Sensory Design Brings Value to Buildings and their Occupants was published in the peer-review journal, Intelligent Buildings International, based in England. Maria Lorena Lehman’s latest works have also been featured in Building Tomorrow, ESQUISSES, and ARCHITECT Magazine.
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