Smaller Architects is a Seoul-based architecture studio founded in 2016 by architect Minwook Choi. The name “Smaller” combines the ideas of “small” and “better,” reflecting the studio’s belief that architecture can create meaningful value even within limited sites, budgets, and urban conditions.
The practice focuses on residential architecture, compact houses, small buildings, adaptive reuse, interiors, and public design projects. Rather than treating constraints as limitations, Smaller Architects sees them as starting points for precise, context-driven solutions.
Based in Seoul, the studio has developed a body of work around small urban sites, narrow lots, infill housing, and everyday spaces. Its projects explore how architecture can improve the quality of life through careful planning, spatial efficiency, natural light, views, and a close reading of the surrounding context.
Representative works include SERORO House, a vertical micro house built on a 33-square-meter site in central Seoul, as well as small residential, mixed-use, and public-space projects that reinterpret the possibilities of dense urban environments in Korea.