Kabage Karanja is a Nairobi-based architect, researcher, and educator. He studied art and architecture in the United Kingdom, qualifying in 2011 under the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). As co-founder and co-director of Cave_bureau, Karanja leads the studio’s research and aesthetic direction, advancing explorations at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and nature. His practice investigates the anthropological and geological dimensions of the postcolonial African city, engaging spatial and cultural questions that shape contemporary rural and urban life. In 2025, Karanja has served as a Master Jury Member for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and earlier this year held the position of Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University. While in 2022, served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Karanja co-curated the British Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, which received a Special Mention. While since 2017, he has co-curated The Anthropocene Museum, a series of exhibitions presented at the Guggenheim Museum and the Venice Architecture Biennale where, in 2021, Cave_bureau was again awarded a Special Mention for its acclaimed installation Obsidian Rain. The Architect’s Studio exhibition series later showcased the museum’s complete collection at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. The Anthropocene Museum has since journeyed back to Mount Suswa, Kenya, where the roaming exhibition finds its resting place. Today, a section of the collection has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Karanja’s work and research have been widely published and profiled in leading international platforms, including e-flux, The New York Times, Wallpaper, The Financial Times, Elle Decor, Dezeen, ArchDaily, The Architect’s Newspaper, CNN, The Architectural Review, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.