Stella Mutegi

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.