Stella Mutegi is director of the architectural studio Cave_bureau in Nairobi, Kenya, which she founded, together with Kabage Karanja, in 2014. She completed her architectural education in Australia at the University of Newcastle before she qualified as an architect in Kenya in 2009. In 2023, Mutegi became adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning & Preservation. At Cave_bureau, she heads the technical department, steering the geological and anthropological investigations towards architectural products as well as interrogating the research studies that form part of a broader decoding of the pre- and post-colonial African city.

Kabage Karanja is director of the architectural studio Cave_bureau, which he founded in 2014 together with Stella Mutegi. He studied at the universities of Loughborough, Brighton, Westminster and Kingston, qualifying as an architect under the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2011. In 2023, Karanja became adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning & Preservation, New York City. At Cave_bureau, he leads geological and anthropological investigations into architecture and nature, and oversees the bureau’s work manifesting through drawing, storytelling, construction and the curation of performative events of resistance within caves.