Recorded on June 19, 2012
Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim sit down with the League’s Gabriel Silberblatt and Saga Blane to discuss the work of their studio and their installation for the League Prize 2012 exhibition at Parsons The New School for Design.
STPMJ is an interdisciplinary architectural practice founded in 2009 with work in scale from furniture to urban infrastructure. The office is lead by Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim and based in Brooklyn, New York. Seung Teak Lee was born in Seoul, Korea. After graduating with a B.E and M.E from Korea University, he received his M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lee was the recipient of the Harvard Architectural Department’s Faculty Design Award in 2009 and was also a finalist for the SOM architecture and urban traveling fellowship. Mi Jung Lim was born in Seoul, Korea. After graduating with a B.S from Yonsei University, she received her B.Arch from Rhode Island School of Design and M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
The Architectural League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers. The Prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas.
