Karl Chu argues a shift in the future from "morphodynamic" architectures to "morphogenetic" architectures. Rather than architectures, both concrete and virtual, being developed solely as results of external forces, genetic architectures have their own internal information and ordering logics. As in the genetics of life, the genetics of architecture have the ability to change and evolve over time.
"The process of genetic recursion has an autonomous, internal logic, which resists semiological regimes of meaning that refer to ready-made typologies." Not being based on existing referents suggests that possibilities go beyond that which is currently imaginable. One frustrating thing about Karl Chu's arguments is the lack of projects that illustrate his theories. Perhaps it is true that the only meaningful products of genetic architecture are those that may only come to pass after a long period of time, but superficially, Chu appears long of wind and short of content.
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