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 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
Email
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
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
Mari Ariluoma, Antti Kinnunen, Jussi Lampinen, Ranja Hautamäki, Juudit Ottelin
2024
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Ranja Hautamäki, Aleksi Heinilä, Atte Moilanen, Juho Rajaniemi
2024
Ranja Hautamäki, Tuulia Puustinen, Tiina Merikoski, Aija Staffans
2024
Cities
Ranja Hautamäki, Mari Ariluoma
2024
Arkkitehti - Finnish Architectural Review
Ranja Hautamäki, Julia Donner, Aada Taipale
2024
Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu
Ranja Hautamäki, Anne Laita
2024
Kohti kestävämpiä asuinalueita: Kaupunginosien ja kortteleiden kestävyysindikaattoreita
Ranja Hautamäki
2024
Puutarha & Kauppa
Ranja Hautamäki, Kati Wolff Susi
2024
Arkkitehtiuutiset
Ranja Hautamäki
2024
Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture : Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories