D. Kenneth Sargent Visiting Critic
Herwig Baumgartner
Principal, Baumgartner Architects
Matter to Practice: Material Intelligence and Machine Agency
This lecture explores architecture as a collaborative act between material agencies and computational processes. Rather than treating matter as passive and machines as tools, the lecture examines how intelligence, agency, and feedback embedded in materials, robotics, and AI actively shape form, performance, and spatial experience—positioning practice itself as a primary laboratory for architectural thought.
