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Mr Christopher Bamborough

Mr Christopher Bamborough

Postdoctoral Fellow

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), School of Architecture, DAB, The University of Technology, Sydney, (2023)

Masters of Architecture (High Distinction), School of Architecture, DAB, The University of Technology, Sydney, (2012)

Bachelor of Architecture (Honours), University of Brighton, (2009)

Bachelor of Arts (Human Geography), University of Sheffield, (2001)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Built Environment

Dr Christopher Bamborough is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, working within the ARC Centre for Next-Generation Architectural Manufacturing (Arch_Manu).

His research examines the role of data in architectural practice, focusing on its technical, cultural, and material impacts. His PhD thesis argued that while data has long been integral to architecture, its digital form introduces a significant and evolving non-human influence on practice. AI and automation are central to this shift, raising critical questions about authorship and the evolving role of human designers. Dr Bamborough’s work highlights the moments where architects enter into machine collaboration and explores the practical and material consequences of these interactions.

At Arch_Manu, Christopher leads the centre's circularity and designing out waste research, and is a co-lead within the digital fabrication Büro design office.  

Trained as an architect in both the UK and Australia, Dr Bamborough has worked across Architecture and Design for Manufacture (DfM) practices before transitioning into academia, where he has spent over 15 years teaching, lecturing and researching computational design, digital fabrication and construction.
E-mail
c.bamborough@unsw.edu.au
Location
Anita B Lawrence Building, Room 440.
  • Conference Papers | 2025
    Carothers A; Haeusler MH; Ramos Jaime C; Kuzmanovska I; Bamborough C, 2025, 'Consolidated Empirical Bio-material Repository', Hong Kong, presented at CAAD Futures 2025 - Catalytic Interfaces, Hong Kong, 02 July 2025 - 04 July 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.25442/hku.29349644
    Conference Papers | 2025
    Haeusler MH; Kuzmanovska I; Bamborough C; Burry J; Burry M; Michael O; Kuys B; Zlatanova S; Shinkle G, 2025, 'Towards an interdisciplinary academia industry research nexus - Collaborative Pathways to Sustainable Digital Innovation in AEC', in CAAD Futures 2025 - Catalytic Interfaces, Hong Kong, presented at CAAD Futures 2025, Hong Kong, 02 July 2025 - 04 July 2025
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Bamborough C, 2019, 'The nature of data in early modern architectural practice.', in Intelligent and Informed Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia Caadria 2019, Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), pp. 343 - 352, presented at Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) [Volume 2], 15 May 2019 - 18 May 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.2.343
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Bamborough C, 2016, 'Running out of STE(A)M: A critical perspective on the political rhetoric of innovation.', presented at Australian Architecture Schools Association Conference (AASA) - 9th International Conference - 2016, Sydney, Australia, 29 September 2016 - 30 September 2016

Current research projects include circularity industry case studies in the Australian AEC sector, the use of prompting in computational design education, and the future of software in architecture practice.   

My Research Supervision

I am currently supervising MPhil candidates who are engaged in practice-based design research, who are investigating the topic of the data and circularity, and who are exploring digital transformation in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector as part of the ARC Centre for Next Generation Architectural Manufacturing.

My Teaching

I have over ten years of experience teaching, designing curriculum and coordinating courses across undergraduate design, construction and history/theory. As a senior academic leader at UTS College, I was responsible for writing and coordinating the Diploma pathway course, replicating the UTS undergraduate first year curriculum. My course design integrated student-centred learning techniques and was the first online asynchronous architecture course provided by UTS, combining digital learning modules with face to face collaborative activities.