N.E.E.D. Architecture was established in 2007 after over 15 years of collaboration between Sangmok Kim, AIA LEED AP and Sungwoo Kim, SBA NL. Internationally acclaimed through their winning entry for Emerging New York Architects Award in 2008, the practice operates in NYC and Seoul with special emphasis in mid-range architecture in Korea. It is a unique range of architecture which requires expertise of realizing large projects as well as flexibility of managing a small office. It slips in the gray zone where neither small nor large practice can work on.

The boundary of middle ground provides the office better adaptability to move towards both ends of project spectrum; crucial trait in practice to expand and sustain.