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.