The cave – both as a physical space and a metaphor – is a provocation to test the limits of contemporary architecture. It invites new thinking about how architecture can adapt to a more community-focused, ecologically sensitive, low-carbon future. This publication and the accompanying sixth exhibition in The Architect’s Studio series at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art are dedicated to the Kenyan architects Cave_bureau. In it, Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja from Cave_bureau describe eight of their projects. Stunning visuals are accompanied by essays poignantly asking questions about the future of architecture in the age of the Anthropocene, the effects of colonial extraction, the erasure of African architecture and the specificity of continents and geographic spaces.
– 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.
Edited by Mette Marie Kallehauge, Malou Wedel Bruun, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner, Kjeld Kjeldsen, Mette Marie Kallehauge
With Contributions by Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, András Szántó, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Molly Desorgher, Kathryn Yusoff, Joy Mboya, Ngaire Blankenberg, Lesley Lokko
Design: Camilla Jørgensen & Søren Damstedt, Trefold
The cave – both as a physical space and a metaphor – is a provocation to test the limits of contemporary architecture. It invites new thinking about how architecture can adapt to a more community-focused, ecologically sensitive, low-carbon future. This publication and the accompanying sixth exhibition in The Architect’s Studio series at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art are dedicated to the Kenyan architects Cave_bureau. In it, Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja from Cave_bureau describe eight of their projects. Stunning visuals are accompanied by essays poignantly asking questions about the future of architecture in the age of the Anthropocene, the effects of colonial extraction, the erasure of African architecture and the specificity of continents and geographic spaces.
– 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.
Edited by Mette Marie Kallehauge, Malou Wedel Bruun, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner, Kjeld Kjeldsen, Mette Marie Kallehauge
With Contributions by Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, András Szántó, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Molly Desorgher, Kathryn Yusoff, Joy Mboya, Ngaire Blankenberg, Lesley Lokko
Design: Camilla Jørgensen & Søren Damstedt, Trefold




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