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Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture
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B.Arch., University of Houston, 1978; M.Arch., Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1984.
Originally from Mandalay, Burma, Karl Chu received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston, Texas, and Master of Architecture form the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1984, where he studied with Daniel Libeskind. He has taught at the Otis Art Institute, Auburn University, Georgia Institute of Technology and was a senior design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI Arc), Los Angeles, for twelve years until 2002. He is currently a visiting adjunct assistant professor at the GSAPP, Columbia University, New York for the fifth consecutive year. He also holds the positions of Co-director of the Genetic Architecture Program and the Director of the Metaphysics of Architecture and Computation at ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Cataluyna, Barcelona. In addition, he has conducted numerous workshops and visiting studios at universities in Innsbruck, Vienna, Mexico City, Seoul and Paris.
He has deep interests in the foundations of mathematics, physics and philosophy along with the metaphysics, which together shaped and influence his theory and practice of architecture. As such, he is exploring into the conceptual space of evolutionary cosmology based on the metaphysics of computation. He sees computation as an intrinsic property of the physical universe and is involved in the re-conception of architecture along the principles of a computational Monadology. With the convergence of computation and genetics, he believes that we are at the threshold of a brave new world that is unfolding before us and we have yet to develop an adequate theory of architecture that engages with the deep and profound ideas inherent in these issues, which is destined to transform the world unlike anything we have seen in the history of human civilization. Towards this end, he is currently involved in the construction of a book on the Monadology of Architecture as a modal conception of the architecture of possible worlds.
He currently resides in Los Angeles where he has his architectural studio, METAXY. He has taught, lectured, published, exhibited and participated in conferences in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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