Mariam Issoufou is an architect from Niger. In 2014, she founded Mariam Issoufou Architects, a research-based practice whose designs emerge as creative responses to identity, place, and history. With offices in Niamey, New York, and Zurich, the firm’s completed projects include the Hikma Community Complex, Niamey 2000, and Dandaji Regional Market in Niger; and Gourmega, in New York. Upcoming projects include the Yantala Office in Niger, the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development in Liberia, and the Bët-bi Museum in Senegal. 

In 2017, Mariam Issoufou Architects was the recipient of the Gold LafargeHolcim Award for Africa and Middle East, the 2018 Silver Global LafargeHolcim Award for Sustainable Architecture, as well as being shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award in 2023. In 2025, the United Nations awarded her the 2025 Champion of the Earth Award for her work in sustainability and social equity. The firm exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021 and 2023, and was commissioned to redesign the biennale’s Rolex Pavilion in 2025. Alongside her design practice, Issoufou is a full professor of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability at ETH Zurich.