Atelier Masōmī and Studio Chahar have the esteemed honor and privilege of being featured in the June 2019 issue of The Architectural Record.

Mariam Kamara was featured in this issue where she talked about place-making in Africa.

Kamara spoke on May 1, 2019. Her lecture was titled Decoding Context: Material, Sustainability And People-Focus Architecture.

atelier masōmī is honored to be part of this guide that comprises 110 profiles of the world’s most innovative architecture practices.

The Dorfman Award champions new talent in architecture. It is awarded to an emerging architects who are re-imagining the future of architecture and whose work demonstrates a high degree of sensitivity to local and global context.

We can not express how thankful and humbled we are for this honor!

We are so happy and humbled to have been there to witness our regional day market of Dandaji’s opening day! It was a wonderful day where we got to watch the merchants appropriate the place for themselves and the community (especially the children) discover and spend their entire day enjoying the new amenity.

We are excited to announce that Mariam will be speaking at the upcoming Design Indaba 2019 in CapeTown. Read what she has to say about design and the role it must play in Africa’s self-identity and confidence, and why architecture is so important to the continent’s future.

After a long search and many amazing candidates, meet atelier masomi’s new addition: Oumou Soumaré! Oumou is a young graduate from Ibn Khaldoun University in Tunisia who has worked in Niger and Senegal. She it committed to an architecture that fits its intended users and respects their narratives. An architecture that relies on simplicity to produce richness.

Welcome Oumou!

Global LafargeHolcim Awards 2018 winners (l-r): Bronze – Eric Mahoney and Constance Bodurow, studio[Ci], USA; Gold – Loreta Castro, Taller Capital and Manuel Perló, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico; and Silver – Mariam Kamara, Atelier Masomi, Niger and Yasaman Esmaili, Studio Chahar, Iran.

Are you looking to join our dynamic team in Niamey? We currently have openings.

Rolex mentor Sir David Adjaye and protégé Mariam Kamara have reveal plans for mentorship at the 16th International Architecture Venice Biennale. The duo is to create a new cultural centre in Niamey, Niger that meets local needs.

After winning the LafargeHolcim Gold Award for sustainable building for Africa and Middle East, our Religious-secular project in Niger has now won Silver in the Global Competition for LafargeHolcim. The project came from a great design collaboration between Mariam Kamara and Yasaman Esmaili https://www.lafargeholcim-foundation.org/projects/legacy-restored

Riba Journal interviews Mariam for in their March 2018 issue

Design Indaba
The two architects will work together for two years as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Read more