Cave Bureau

The following firm biography comes from the Cave Bureau website.

“We are a Nairobi based bureau of architects and researchers charting explorations into architecture and urbanism within nature. Our work addresses the anthropological and geological context of the African city as a means to confront the complexities of our contemporary rural and urban lives. 

The bureau is driven to develop systems and structures that improve the human condition, without negatively impacting the natural environment and social fabric of our communities. We navigate a return to the limitless curiosity of our early ancestors, conducting playful and intensive research studies into caves within and around Nairobi. These studies form part of a broader decoding of pre and post colonial conditions of the city, explored through drawing, storytelling, construction, and the curation of performative events of resistance.

We also work to reconcile the often disjointed linkage between academia and practice by engaging multiple schools of architecture and studios around the world, where we lecture and review student work. Our evolving objective here being to better bridge the uneasy gap between these two standpoints, especially from our African position.”