Kabage Karanja (Riba) Email & Phone Number

Kabage is a founder and director of Cave_bureau, starting the practice in 2014 alongside Stella Mutegi. His passion for the natural environment, and his geological and anthropological investigations into architecture and nature helped shape the practice and the work it has produced.He leads the research at Cave, where he orchestrates expeditions and surveys into caves within the rift valley, while steering the creative direction and delivery of all cave projects.A UK qualified architect since 2011; Kabage has worked at Symbion in Kenya, 3DReid Architects in Central London, Quay-2Cs Architects, in, Peckham,London, and Bohn & Viljoen Architects, in Dulwich, London. Kabage studied at Loughborough University, Brighton University, Westminster University, and Kingston University where he completed his architectural education, qualifying as an Architect under the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He is also a member of the Architectural Association of Kenya.He writes on architecture and is regularly invited to the University of Johannesburg to review student work at the Graduate School Of Architecture. Kabage is a serial sketcher and story teller, driven to script and communicate cave thinking surrounding the built and natural environment.Kabage Karanja is an architect and spelunker. Recent exhibitions while leading Cave_bureau include The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2021; The World Around Summit & Guggenheim Museum, 2021; Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, 2019-20; London Festival of Architecture, 2018.

Listed skills include Sketchup, Architectural Design, Photoshop, Revit, and 15 others.