STPMJ: ‘In Korea, architecture was not seen as a profession that synthesises cultural, social and environmental aspects’ | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
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With one foot in South Korea and the other in New York, the work of Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim is a hybridisation of East and West
On the face of it, the prospect of two young Korean architects working in Seoul and New York ticks all the tediously clichéd boxes of ‘East meets West’. Yet impelled by geographical and cultural fluidity, such cross-fertilisations can be compelling. Born in Korea but educated in the US, STPMJ is the personal and professional partnership of Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim who met while studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The firm’s acronym is formed from the first initials of the two partners’ names connected by a ‘p’ for ‘plus’. It also stands for their five core values: speculative, trailblazing, playful, materialised and judicious.