Me
Design through L.O.V.E.
Listen. Observe. Validate. Empower.
Mochi Liu is a Chinese American designer, artist, and yoga and meditation teacher based in Brooklyn. His work brings together architecture, craft, and contemplative practice, exploring how we relate to ourselves, one another, and the spaces we share.
His creative practice draws on both Eastern and Western cultural influences. His projects range from a collaborative origami installation at the White House to the design and construction of pavilions at Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. As a 2015 Parsons Design Fellow, he worked with Haitian artisans through the Design, Organization, Training Center (D.O.T), an initiative connecting traditional craft with contemporary design.
Mochi also brings nearly a decade of experience in university space planning. As Assistant Director of Space Planning at The New School, he worked across disciplines to support the spaces where students, faculty, and staff learn, create, and gather. Earlier in his career, he worked at DiMella Shaffer in Boston, contributing to affordable housing, senior living, nursing home, and sustainable campus projects.
Mochi approaches design through L.O.V.E.: Listen, Observe, Validate, and Empower. He listens to each client’s story, ideas, desires, and aesthetic preferences, and observes how they live, work, use spaces and objects, and respond to design in everyday life. Together, they clarify needs, priorities, functional requirements, and practical constraints, and confirm a shared understanding. He acknowledges their experiences while offering honest guidance on the feasibility and tradeoffs of proposed solutions. He works with them to make informed choices and develop designs that reflect their identity and support the way they want to live and work.
This attention to people also informs L.O.V.E. by Mochi, which brings together yoga, meditation, and community. His teaching invites people to listen to their bodies, approach their experiences with curiosity, and support themselves and one another with care.
Mochi completed a 200 hour LifePower Yoga teacher training and a 100 hour training in traditional hot yoga (26+2). His personal Vipassana meditation practice informs his approach to awareness, equanimity, and being present with change.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Urban Planning from Southeast University and a Master of Architecture with honors from Parsons School of Design. He is a former Healthy Materials Lab Research Fellow.
Across these forms of practice, his intention remains the same: to create space for connection, creativity, and belonging.
Love the practice. Let’s practice L.O.V.E.
