Doreen Heng Liu
Visiting Professor of Practice in Urban Planning and Design
Doreen Heng LIU, a Chinese architect born in Guangzhou. She received her MArch at UC Berkeley in 1994 and Doctor of Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2008. In 2004, LIU established her own design practice NODE in Hong Kong, and relocated in Shenzhen since 2010.
Over the years, Liu and her firm have been conducting diverse architectural design, urban design research, art and spatial practices in the Pearl River Delta and broader regions. With her design focuses on urban regeneration, infrastructure and public space, LIU and her firm try to re-investigate and re-examine the given conditions based on specific sites and issues; Through a series of critical and research-led design exercises, the firm is to explore and ultimately to deliver different but better alternatives of architecture and urbanism in south China today.
Her design works have been widely published in many professional and academic magazines at China and abroad, including Domus, Volume, Abitare, Architectural Record, AD, Architectural Journal, World Architecture, Time Architecture, and etc. , and invited to participate in many exhibitions, including Vienna MAK East Asian Contemporary Architecture and Space Practice Exhibition, AEDES Berlin, Venice Biennale, Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, Guangzhou Triennial, Shenzhen\Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, Shanghai Biennale, and etc. Her recent solo exhibition Wind Blows, Water Rises was held in 2025 at the AEDES Architecture Forum in Berlin, Germany, and at Tongji University in Shanghai.
Doreen Heng LIU was Adjunct Professor at School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009-2019), and appointed as Guest Professor at D-ARCH, ETH in 2015-2016; and Friedman Chair Professor in Practice at the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Since September 2020, she has been served as Chair Professor (特聘教授) at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University and Director of the Greater Bay Area Innovative Design Lab.