Information is the currency of life.
metaxy is an architectural practice at the cutting edge of the creation and implementation of new concepts for architecture and design based on the genetic paradigm. The studio deploys computation as a generative engine to arrive at the construction of possible worlds of architecture that are imaginative, surreal and enigmatic. As such, architecture is conceived as a generic construct situated within the emerging concept of the global brain: sublimation of collective intelligence through architectural form.
In addition to solving architectural problems, the primary focus of the studio is directed toward the architecture of the Real: a phenomenology of affects invoked through artistic modulation of the underlying logic of form - both in terms of its intrinsic and extrinsic properties and relations.
Karl Chu first conceived the contemporary notion of genetic architecture - a far reaching idea that transcends its
biological origins. Genetics is thought of as an extension of the philosophical concept of genesis channeled through the medium of computation: deployment of logical
systems for the propagation and mutation of hereditary information involved in the architectural
design process.
Karl Chu is the principal of metaxy. He also serves as Director of
the Institute for Genetic Architecture (IGA) at the Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York,
where he is also an adjunct associate professor of architectural design. Chu
has taught, lectured, published and exhibited his work internationally.
Projects displayed on this website are samples of work done by metaxy.
Further information on architectural research and desgin work, please contact ->
Email: info@metaxy.com
Tel: 1 310 500 8513
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