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Are Museums Still Relevant? Architects Mariam Issoufou and Adam Caruso Look for Answers

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 …
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By Chair Issoufou
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October 15, 2024
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Activism-Based Architecture at atelier masōmī: How atelier masōmī is Championing Local Narratives

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 …
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By Chair Issoufou
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September 19, 2023
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Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere

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, …
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By Chair Issoufou
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April 27, 2022
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In Niger, an Architect Looking to the Country’s Design Traditions: Eschewing a Western definition of modernity, Mariam Kamara instead conceives of buildings and spaces that account for how people really live.

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 …
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By Chair Issoufou
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August 10, 2020

PROF. MARIAM ISSOUFOU
ARCHITECTURE HERITAGE & SUSTAINABILITY

ETH Zürich
Department of Architecture
Stefano–Franscini–Platz 5
CH–8093 Zürich
HIL E 47.1