Kabage is a director and founder of Cave_bureau, starting the practice in 2014 alongside Stella Mutegi.
He is a natural environment enthusiast leading geological and anthropological investigations into architecture and nature, synonymous with the bureau’s work. He leads the research, orchestrating expeditions and surveys into caves within the Great Rift Valley, navigating a return to the limitless curiosity of our early ancestors.
These playful and intensive research studies form part of a broader decoding of the pre and post-colonial African city, where he oversees the bureau’s work that manifests through drawing, storytelling, construction, and the curation of performative events of resistance within caves.
A UK qualified architect since 2011; He 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 review student work in universities around the world.
Kabage is a serial sketcher and storyteller, driven to script and communicate cave thinking surrounding the built and natural environment.