Ranja Hautamäki

Professori (Associate professor)

T201 Dept. Architecture

Ranja Hautamäki works as Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture. She is a landscape architect and gained a doctor of science degree in 2016. Her professorship is landscape planning and society. Ranja works with sustainable landscape planning and management with a special interest in two topics: planning practices and discourses. Her research addresses nature-based solutions and planning practices to tackle societal challenges related to climate change, biodiversity and well-being. Her recent funded projects focus on green infrastructure in climate change mitigation and adaptation. She has studied the conceptions of nature and how these are translated into planning and materialized in landscape architecture.

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

ranja.hautamaki@aalto.fi

Phone number

+358505232207

Areas of expertise

Landscape Architecture, Landscape planning, Landscape management, 211 Architecture

Honors and awards

Lappset scholarship

The Lappset scholarship is a prize for the year's best thesis in landscape architecture. It is awarded annually to the author of a meritorious thesis in the Landscape Architecture programme at Aalto University. The prize amounts to EUR 2 000 and is donated by Lappset Group Oy.<br/><br/>The thesis was supervised by Professor Ranja Hautamäki and Landscape Architect Pauliina Korhonen. The work was done as part of the research project Saari Manor House — on the other side of sustainability, funded by Aalto University and the Kone Foundation.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Jan 2025

Puutarhaliiton kultainen ansiomerkki, Golden Badge

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Architecture Oct 2022

Vuolteentori - the environmental structure of the year 2018, project landscape architect in the city of Tampere, Vuolteentorin kunnostus - Vuoden ympäristörakenne-palkinto 2018, suunnitteluttaja

role: project landscape architect in the city of Tampere, responsible for arranging the landscape architecture competition and master plan.

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Feb 2019

Supervisor for LAPPSET-awarded master´s thesis by Anni-Mari Anttola

Helsingin niittyverkosto - analyysi ja kehittämissuunnitelma

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Feb 2018

Väitöskirjapalkinto 2016

Prize for Doctoral Dissertation of the Year 2016 in the Department of Architecture

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Nov 2016

Maisema-arkkitehtuuriteko 2016

The Landscape Architecture Achievement of the Year 2016

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Oct 2016

Publications

Climate & Canopy / Designs for a Cooler Planet

Ranja Hautamäki, Antti Kinnunen, Elina Alatalo, Jenni Karhapää 2025

Helsinki Garden ja kamppailu kaupunkikuvasta

Ranja Hautamäki, Tommy Lindgren 2025 Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu - Finnish Journal of Urban Studies

How urban green infrastructure contributes to carbon neutrality

Ranja Hautamäki, Liisa Kulmala, Mari Ariluoma, Leena Järvi 2025 Buildings & Cities

Mahtuuko aukiolle puita?

Ranja Hautamäki 2025 Aukio

Maisema-arkkitehtuuri ja asuinalueiden kaupunkivihreän kehitys 1940-2000

Ranja Hautamäki 2025 Rakennettu hyvinvointi

Assessing the implications of EU Nature Restoration Law targets from carbon sequestration and biodiversity perspectives in a high-green urban environment

Antti Kinnunen, Ranja Hautamäki, Jaana B. Junnila, Joel Jalkanen, Leena Järvi, Liisa Kulmala, Jussi Lampinen, Minttu Havu, Seppo Junnila, Christopher Raymond 2025 npj Urban Sustainability