Xinyu (Joy) Liu

Growing up in Inner Mongolia, China, Xinyu (Joy) Liu was deeply influenced by the indigenous wisdom as she integrated that into her design work.

Xinyu received her Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She also studied and traveled in various cultural settings, loving to observe and compare landscape architecture practices across the world, and dig-in the historical, social and economic factors behind. She believes that landscape architecture can be used as a tool for recording and communicating stories, and she is interested in exploring all means of landscape architecture expression. 

Outside of the office, Xinyu is a voluntary makeup artist. Through her work with makeup, she found a similarity between makeup and landscape architecture and enjoyed meeting new faces in both ways.