stpmj Architecture

stpmj is an idea-driven design practice based in New York and Seoul. In 2009 Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim founded the office with the belief that our work explores a new perspective built from careful observations of material, structure and program expanding to the social, cultural, political, environmental, and economic phenomena of our time. The office approaches projects with an intellect of thoughts and questions, yet a strong commitment to realize these ideas in the world. It allows us to provide distinctive and creative solutions to develop designs at different scales; ranging from architecture to urban strategies, tangible practices and utopian ideas with unforeseen manners. Our solution is process, not just product. We see the unprecedented in architecture and the environment as the result of continually embracing new parameters.
stpmj aims for provocative realism. We design iconic architecture that stands out, not apart; that is visionary, not fantastical.