Kabage Karanja

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.