Interview by Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen, PIN-UP Magazine Why do we even go to museums? Mariam Issoufou, architect and professor of architecture heritage and sustainability at ETH Zürich, poses the question early on in her …
By Eliza Jordan for whitewall.art | Published on August 8, 2023 Mariam Issoufou Kamara founded the Niger-based architecture and research firm atelier masōmī in 2014. At the inception of a project, atelier masōmī considers its impact—from creating jobs for the …
Interview by Kelly Beamon, Metropolis Mag | Originally published 27.04.2022 Architect Mariam Kamara—founder of Niamey, Niger-based firm Atelier Masōmī—is a contrarian of design pedagogy as it is largely practiced today. To Kamara, modern is not synonymous with European forms, …
By Michael Snyder for NY Times Style Magazine | Originally Published 10.08.2020 At age 6, the architect Mariam Kamara moved with her family from Niamey, the capital of Niger, deep into the country’s vast Saharan …