Doreen Heng Liu is a Chinese architect born in Guangzhou. She received her M.Arch from UC Berkeley in 1994 and Doctor of Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2008. In 2004, she established her own design practice, NODE, in Nansha and Hong Kong, and relocated to Shenzhen in 2009. For years, NODE has been leading a diversity of architectural, urbanism, art and design practices in the South China region. In recent years, the firm has been particularly interested in cross-disciplinary research and architectural making in the fields of public space, infrastructure, urban regeneration and cultural/artistic/academic buildings.