Stella is a director and founder of Cave_bureau, starting the practice in 2014 alongside Kabage Karanja. Her pragmatic and yet lateral attention to detail complements her wide breadth of experience in the creative and delivery phases of our projects.
She heads the technical department at Cave, where she orchestrates the seamless coordination of our ideas into built form. Stella is well known in the office as the problem slayer of all design issues. She is able to solve all manner of design related challenges with mind boggling ease. helping steer the geological and anthropological investigations towards architectural products.
She partakes in the Cave_bureau expeditions and surveys into caves within the Great Rift Valley, navigating a return to the limitless curiosity of our early ancestors.
She also interrogates the playful and intensive research studies that form part of a broader decoding of the pre and post-colonial African city.
A Kenyan qualified architect since 2009; Stella has worked at Symbion Kenya, Dimensions Architects, and Interior Designers in Kenya.
Stella studied at University of Newcastle in Australia where she completed her architectural education, before returning back home to Kenya.
She then qualified as an Architect under the Board of Registration of Architects & Quantity Surveyors (BORAQS) and is a member of the Architectural Association of Kenya.