Cave Bureau: The Architect's Studio

The first publication on the Kenyan collective exploring colonial erasure and the future of architecture in the age of the Anthropocene. This fifth volume in Lars Müller's Architect's Studio series is dedicated to the Nairobi-based architects Cave_bureau. This acclaimed collective of architects and researchers-the first Kenyan firm to appear at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2021-explores the synergy between architecture, urbanism and nature, and curates performative events of resistance within caves along the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. The cave, as physical space and as metaphor, is seen by the collective as a provocation to test the limits of contemporary architecture. Here, Cave_bureau's Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja describe eight of their projects. Stunning photography is accompanied by essays posing questions about the future of architecture in the age of the Anthropocene, the effects of colonial extraction and erasure on African architecture, as well as the specificity of each continent and each geographic space. AUTHORS: Joy Mboya is the director of the GoDown Arts Centre, a multidisciplinary arts facility in Nairobi, Kenya. Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi are founders of Cave - bureau in Nairobi, Kenya. Lesley Lokko is a Ghanaian Scottish architect and educator. She was until recently dean of the School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Andras Szanto is the author of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (Hatje Cantz, 2021). Poul Erik Tøjner is the director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams are professors at the University of Leicester. Kathryn Yusoff is a professor at Queen Mary University of London. SELLING POINTS: . Kenyan collective of researchers and architects Cave_bureau is a firm focused on architecture's relationship to the Anthropocene, the colonialist erasure of African architecture and the unique geography of every continent. In addition, they conduct research into caves around Nairobi. . This title is the fifth volume in Lars Müller's Architect's Studio series and delves into eight projects from Cave - bureau using photography and essays. . Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 06/29/2023?11/26/2023. 179 illustrations