Ranja Hautamäki

Professori (Associate professor)
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 urban landscape planning and management with a special interest in two topics: planning practices and discourses. Her recent funded projects on nature-based solutions have aimed to develop research-based planning practices and tools to tackle societal challenges related to climate change, biodiversity and well-being. She has studied the conceptions of nature and welfare and how these are translated into planning and materialized in landscape architecture.

Full researcher profile
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Contact information

Phone number
+358505232207

Areas of expertise

Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning, Landscape Preservation, Landscape Governance, 211 Architecture

Honors and awards

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

Kaupunkivihreä ilmastotekona

Ranja Hautamäki, Mari Ariluoma 2024 Arkkitehti - Finnish Architectural Review

Fusco & Lehmusruusu (IT/FI) – Lungs

Teemu Lehmusruusu, Roberto Fusco, Leena Järvi, Ranja Hautamäki, Jussi Lampinen, Andrea Mancianti, Marloes van Son 2024

Viherrakenteen monitoiminnallisuutta arvioimassa alueellisen viherkertoimen avulla

Elisa Lähde, Paula Piirainen, Ranja Hautamäki 2024 Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu

A framework for a carbon-based urban vegetation typology - A thematic review

Mari Ariluoma, Paula-Kaisa Leppänen, Outi Tahvonen, Ranja Hautamäki, Anna Ryymin 2023 Environmental Development

Carbon-smart Urban Green Infrastructure as a Climate Solution

Ranja Hautamäki, Leena Järvi, Mari Ariluoma, Antti Kinnunen, Liisa Kulmala, Jussi Lampinen, Tiina Merikoski, Outi Tahvonen 2023

Hiiliviisas kaupunkivihreä ilmastoratkaisuksi: Politiikkasuosituksia kaupungeille

Ranja Hautamäki, Leena Järvi, Mari Ariluoma, Antti Kinnunen, Liisa Kulmala, Jussi Lampinen, Tiina Merikoski, Outi Tahvonen 2023

Maisema-arkkitehtuurin 1970-luku: ratkaisuja kaupungistumiseen ja ympäristöongelmiin

Ranja Hautamäki, Julia Donner 2023 Murrosten vuosikymmen – Arki, aatteet ja arkkitehtuuri 1970-luvun Suomessa