Architecture

We conduct high-impact, multidisciplinary research that encompasses the following broad areas of research: Urban Planning and Design, Architectural Design and Sustainable Housing, and History of Architecture and Built Heritage. We share an interest in the ecological and cultural sustainability of the built environment and the social significance of space. Research areas are connected to our teaching activities and doctoral research, where students, teachers and researchers work together in an international environment.

Architectural Design and Sustainable Housing

In the architectural design area, researchers aim to achieve meaningful societal change through two research groups:

Sustainable Housing research (ASUTUT) investigates and re-imagines new approaches to housing design and its spatial and architectural quality in an ever-changing world. Priorities include adaptable and accessible housing, different models of co-housing and shared spaces, energy efficient housing and user satisfaction and dwellers health and well-being.

ASUTUT – Sustainable Housing Design Research Group

SPREAD (Spatial & Speculative Research in Architectural Design) weaves together theoretical, historical, practice-based, social and scientific research to explore new ways of relating architectural practice and theory. SPREAD speculates and reflects on spatial qualities in architecture by exploring theory and investigating architectural criticism and design processes and methods.

SPREAD – Spatial & Speculative Research in Architectural Design

History of Architecture and Built Heritage

Our research on architectural heritage management aims to preserve and develop a culturally and ecologically sustainable built environment. Our research focuses on the tradition of wood construction, the values of building protection, the history of modern architecture, the sustainable use and development of the building stock, especially in suburban renovation and the reuse of concrete elements, and promoting the competitiveness of Finnish large-scale industrial wood construction as part of the bioeconomy and sustainable development. Research is carried out in cooperation with, for example, Civil Engineering. We aim to promote the preservation of the cultural, economic and functional value of the built environment in sustainable ways.

Management of Built Heritage
 

Urban Planning and Design

Our research in urban planning focuses in particular on the different aspects of planning and the development of cities and urban areas. Research priorities include research into planning systems and practices, expression of space and power in urban planning, urban experiences including mobility and public space in cities, comprehensive development of the built environment in a forward-thinking manner, innovative methods of joint development, and research into the history of urban planning. Our research is multidisciplinary in nature and is carried out in a close cooperation with, for example, geography, transport planning, sociology,management sciences, economics and environmental psychology, including comparative case studies and critical transfer of practices from one context to another. We are looking for new practices and methods to improve user orientation and resource efficiency of the built environment.

Urban Planning and Design

Seinäjoki Urban Laboratory

Datutop

The Datutop series was founded in 1982 by the late Jorma Mänty, professor of urban planning at the School of Architecture at Tampere University of Technology. The central themes of the Datutop publications are architectural theory and urban planning theory. Editions have varied from monographs to theme-based collections of essays and general numbers. The name Datutop originally was an acronym for Department of Architecture Tampere University of Technology Occasional Papers. Since the names of both the university and department of architecture have changed a few times during the past decades, these days the letters stand for something else: D= design, A= architecture, T= theory, U= university, T= Tampere… and OP is still occasional papers.

Due to the irregularity of its publication, advance subscriptions to Datutop cannot be handled by the editors or the university. Inquiries regarding purchases should be addressed to the distributors.

Datutop welcomes inquiries from institutions producing similar publications in the field of architecture and design theory, with a view to exchanging publications.
 

Editors:

Gareth Griffiths – Helsinki
Minna Chudoba – Tampere

International Editorial Board:

Daniel García Escudero – Barcelona
Klaske Havik – Delft
Sari Hirvonen-Kantola – Oulu
Dörte Kuhlmann – Vienna
Kimmo Lapintie – Helsinki
Raine Mäntysalo – Helsinki
Ola Wetterberg – Gothenburg

Contact

EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE

Datutop Editors,
Tampere University,
School of Architecture,
P.O.Box 600,
FIN – 33014 Tampere university,
FINLAND

architecture [at] tuni [dot] fi

Notes to Contributors

Datutop welcomes submissions for publication. Normal practice in writing scientific papers is recommended. Submissions are expected in electronic form. Good print-quality illustrations should be stored separately, but their position in the text indicated clearly. Illustration sources should be authenticated. Datutop cannot pay for illustration costs. An abstract should accompany the text, as well as a short biographical note on the author. Datutop cannot pay honoraria to authors, but they are entitled to one free copy.


Distribution and Sales

Copies of DATUTOP can be purchased by sending the issue number (and name if known), the number of copies requested, billing information and postal address by e-mail to architecture (at) tuni (dot) fi.

The prices are as follows (includes VAT 10%):

Numbers 1 – 9: 5 €, numbers 10 – 19: 10 €, numbers 20 – 29: 20 €, numbers 30 – 39: 30 €, and numbers 40 and over are 35 euros.  

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Issues
 

Datutop 40      Loneliness and the Built Environment
Fernando Nieto & Rosana Rubio (eds.). Loneliness and the Built Environment

DATUTOP 40
2021/ ISBN 978-952-03-1937-3 / 167 pages
Link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1938-0

Datutop 39      What, if anything is a rabbit?
Gareth Griffiths & Dörte Kuhlmann (eds.). What, if anything is a rabbit? Kari Jormakka, Architecture theorist – Gedenkschrift

DATUTOP 39
2020/ ISBN 978-952-03-1601 / 300 pages
Link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1600

Datutop 38     Understanding and Designing Place
Pekka Passinmäki & Klaske Havik (eds.). Understanding and Designing Place – Considerations on Architecture and Philosophy

DATUTOP 38
2019 / ISBN 978-952-03-1113-1 / 144 pages
Link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1114-8
Out of Print

Datutop 37     THINKING design
Randall Teal. THINKING Design – Towards an Architecture of Critical Indeterminacy and Temporal Affectivity

DATUTOP 37                   
2018 / ISBN 978-952-15-4263-3-0 / 263 pages
Link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-15-4264-0

Datutop 36     The Work of the Studio Aalto Collaborators
Miguel Borges De Araujo. The Work of the Studio Aalto Collaborators: Practice, Craft and Theory

DATUTOP 36                   
2018 / ISBN 978-952-15-4198-8 / 271 pages
Link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-15-4199-5

Datutop 35     Re-City. (Im)possible cities
Juho Rajaniemi & Minna Chudoba (eds.). Re-City. (Im)possible cities

DATUTOP 35                   
2018 / ISBN 978-952-15-4143-8 / 150 pages
Link : http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-15-4144-5

Datutop 34      Re-city. Future city - combining disciplines
Juho Rajaniemi (ed.). Re-city. Future city – Combining Disciplines

DATUTOP 34                   
2016 / ISBN 978-952-15-3624-3 / 287 pages
Link: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-15-3625-0

Datutop 33      Timo Penttilä Against Architectural Theory
Roger Connah. The School of Exile – Timo Penttilä Against Architectural Theory

DATUTOP 33                   
2015 / ISBN 978-952-15-3446-1 / 246 pages

Datutop 32      Becoming Metapolis
Anssi Joutsiniemi. Becoming Metapolis – A Configurational Approach

DATUTOP 32                   
2010 / ISBN 978-952-15-2311-3 / 349 pages

Datutop 31     Metaphors in Urban Planning
Terttu Pakarinen. Metaphors in Urban Planning. From Garden City to Zwischenstadt and Netzstadt

DATUTOP 31                    
2010 / ISBN 978-952-15-2310-6 / 120 pages

Datutop 30     Remix   
Paul Kriesis. On the Relation of Town Patterns to Socio-Political Milieus
Harri Andersson. The Economic and Social Restructuring of Urban Centres
Taina Rajanti. This Place on Earth
Jukka Oksa. The Structure of Man’s Territorial Ties
Yrjö Sepänmaa. To Approve or to Criticize?
Kaj Nyman. Wittgenstein Meaning Architecture
Jorma Mänty. Second Thoughts on Functionalism

DATUTOP 30                    
2009 / ISBN 978-952-15-2061-7 / 135 pages

Datutop 29     City + Cinema – Essays on The Specificity of Location in Film
Lisbon – Marcelino Santos
Helsinki – Henry Bacon
Auschwitz – Robert Jan van Pelt
Boston – Doug Graf
Rome – Stijn Colpaert
Tokyo – Jean-Louis Rivard
Hong Kong – Audrey Yue
Paris – M. Christine Boyer
Sydney – Felicity Collins
Dakar – Roy Armes
Åmål – Gareth Griffiths
Milan – Dörte Kuhlmann
New York – Terri Meyer Boake
New York / Los Angeles – Kari Jormakka
Hamburg – Arturo Silva
Vienna – Djamel Zeniti

DATUTOP 29                    
2007 / ISBN 978-952-15-1865-2 / 223 pages

Datutop 28     The Piglet Years
Roger Connah: The Piglet Years – The Lost Militancy in Finnish Architecture

2007 / ISBN 952-15-1469-8 / 176 pages
 

Datutop 27     The Art of the City – From Camillo Sitte to Today
Kari Jormakka. Introduction
Sonja Hnilica. The City as an Artwork
Ákos Moravánsky. Forced Spontaneities, Intentional Accidents
Wolfgang Sonne. Picturesque Urban Design and its Political Connotations
Christiane Crasemann. Sitte in the New World
Riitta Nikula Sitte. and Finland
Stanford Anderson. Orders in Reception
Anthony Vidler. Urban Anxiety and Urban Design
Kari Jormakka. The View from the Tower
Nina Roschakowski. The Torture of Camillo Sitte
Bernhard Langer. The Artistic Principles of Junk Space
Dörte Kuhlmann. The City of the Future

2006 / ISBN 952-15-1469-8 / 190 pages
 

Datutop 26     "Development Area" in National and Local Contexts
Kimmo Kurunmäki. "Development Area" in National and Local Contexts in Finland, Germany and Britain

2005 / ISBN 952-15-1249-10 / 286 Pages

Datutop 25    Caribbean Urban Modernization
Karine Dupré. Caribbean Urban Modernization – A Typomorphological Study of Two Towns in Guadeloupe (1928-2003)

2004 / ISBN 952-15-1162-1 / 312 Pages
Out of Print

Datutop 24
Gareth Griffiths. Introduction. Theory…Reason
Jarkko S. Tuusvuori. Constructing Nietzsche and Architecture
Kari Jormakka. The Fifth Wittgenstein
Jüri Soolep. Architecture Being Given: Temporality in the Design Process
Elie Haddad. Against Reification: Re-Reading Manfredo Tafuri
Eymen Homsi. The Ritual of Orientation: Gesture, Script and Space in Islam
Antti Ahlava & Trevor Harris. Supertools Last All Summer Long. New Planning and Building Permission Tools: Towards Self-Organizing Singularities

2004 / ISBN 952-15-1161-3 / 104 Pages

Datutop 23
John Gil. Putting the Body Back
Sudarshan Krishnan. The Exposition Pavilion: A Play of Structure and Sign
Riitta Kuoppamäki. On Architectural Sketching
Harsha Munasinghe. Conserved For Living: Urban Renaissance Through the Protection of Urban Tissue
Raine Mäntysalo. Architectural Design Activity: A Creative Play Between Metonymies and Metaphors
Nikos A. Salingaros & Terry M. Mikiten. Darwininan Processes and Memes in Architecture

2002 / ISBN 952-15-0767-5 / 143 Pages

Datutop 22     Absolute Motion
Kari Jormakka. Introduction: Absolute Motion
Charles Jencks. The New Paradigm in Architecture
Bernard Langer. The House that Gilles Built
Bart Lootsma. The Diagram Debate
Kari Jormakka. Moving On
Caroline Bos & Ben Van Berkel. Techniques and Effects
Marcos Novak. Invisible Architectures
Dörte Kuhlmann. Anymotion in Architecture

2002 / ISBN 952-15-0781-0 / 159 pages

Datutop 21
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. Between ‘Verfremdung’ and ‘Entfremdung’: The Architecture of Alvar Aalto and Reima Pietilä
Gareth Griffiths. “Drawing in Finnish”? Notes on Cultural Relativism
Kari Jormakka. The Flesh in Stone
Dörte Kuhlmann. Speculum Mundi
Adriana Matei. Designing on a Slope

2001 / ISBN 952-15-0544-3 / 100 Pages
Out of Print

Datutop 20    The Use and Abuse of Paper
Kari Jormakka, Jacqueline Gargus and Douglas Graf. The Use and Abuse of Paper: Essays on Alvar Aalto

1999 / ISBN 952-15-0267-3 / 200 Pages

Datutop 19     The Polemical Aalto
Gareth Griffiths. The Polemical Aalto. The Enso-Gutzeit Headquarters, Helsinki (1959-1962) by Alvar Aalto - A Formal Analysis

1997 / ISBN 951-722-789-2 / 144 Pages
Out of Print

Datutop 18
James Goldblatt. Forcing Metaphor. Aesthetic Experience and the Suspension of Meaning
Jacqueline Gargus. Textual Representations
Kari Jormakka. On Architectural Representations
Klaus-Jürgen Bauer. Almost Nothing
Douglas Graf. Heureka: Formal Analysis
Kari Jormakka. An Interview with Arthur C. Danto
Jukka Järvinen. Interviews with Bernard Tschumi and Kenneth Frampton

1996 / ISBN 951-722-369-2 / 139 pages
Out of Print

Datutop 17    The So-Called Good Environment
Kimmo Lapintie. The So-Called Good Environment: Morality and Criticism in Architecture

1992 / ISBN 951-721-970-9 / 155 Pages
Out of Print

Datutop 16     Reference and Meaning in Architecture
Jukka Järvinen. Reference and Meaning in Architecture

1992 / ISBN 978-951-721-815-3 / 201 Pages
Out of Print

Datutop 15    Constructing Architecture
Kari Jormakka. Constructing Architecture: Notes on Theory and Criticism in Architecture and the Arts

1991 / ISBN 951-721-726-9 / 261 Pages
Out of Print

Datutop 14
Douglas Graf. Strange Siblings – Being and No-Thinness: An Inadvertent Homage to Ray and Charles Eames
Kari Jormakka. An Interview with Peter Eisenman
Christian Norberg-Schulz. The Language of Architecture

1991 / ISBN 951-721-655-6 / 110 Pages
Out of Print
 

Datutop 13
Harri Andersson. Restructuring of Urban Centres
Taina Rajanti. This Place on Earth
Jussi Rautsi. Alvar Aalto’s Urban Plans 1940-1970
Discussion: On Method, On Zeitgeist
Out of Print


Datutop 12
Jorma Mänty & Norman Pressman (Eds.). Cities Designed for Winter
Out of Print

 

Datutop 11
Kimmo Lapintie. Knowing, Seeing, Planning
Kaj Nyman. Cybernetics and Thinking in Architecture
Tarkko Oksala. Universal CAD and Architecture
Discussion: Functionalism, Semiotics, Meaning

 
Datutop 10
Ari Hynynen. Organic Urban Planning. A Steinerian Perspective
Kimmo Lapintie. The Imaginative Eye: Roger Scruton and the Aesthetics of Architecture
Kaj Nyman. Wittgenstein, Meaning and Architecture
Discussion: Functionalism and Zeitgeist
Out of Print

 

Datutop 9
Kari Jormakka. An Interpretation of the Functionalist Theory of Architecture
Kimmo Lapintie. A Theory of Space: Towards a Pure Phenomenology of Architecture
Frances Ya-Sing Tsu. An Introduction to Vernacular Architecture in China
 

Datutop 8
Esko Eerola. Knowledge and Discourse in Societal Planning
Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna. Philosophies in Architecture: A Paradigmatic Analysis
Kaj Nyman. The Language of Environmental Forms in Architect’s Praxis
Marja-Leena Setälä. Transmission of Childhood Culture in Urban Neighbourhoods
Out of Print

 

Datutop 7
Jorma Mänty. On the Principles of Architecture

1985 / Second Edition 1999 / ISBN 951-720-926-6 / 144 Pages

 

Datutop 6
Radu Dragan. Architecture-Sign-Symbol
Pertti Rautio. The Social Sciences and the Revolutions in the Visual Arts
Yrjö Sepänmaa. On the Two Tasks of Environmental Aesthetics
Out of Print

 

Datutop 5
Kimmo Lapintie. The Problems of Value in Architectural Design
Tarkko Oksala. Problems in Architectural Philosophy
Joel Rieder. Southern Chinese Classical Gardens
Out of Print

 

Datutop 4
Lauri Ahlgrèn. Scientific and Artistic Architecture
Joachim S. Bach. Time Signals or How the New Conservatives Overcome Modern Buildings
Jorma Mänty. Second Thoughts on Functionalism
Ana Rodríguez. A Brief Consideration of Finnish Urban Space
Out of Print

 

Datutop 3
Paul Kriesis. On the Relation of Town Patterns to Socio-Political Milieus
Jukka Oksa. The Structure of Man’s Territorial Ties
Pentti Rannikko. The Urban Environment and Social Interaction
Out of Print

 

Datutop 2
Tunde Soyemi. History of the Urban Culture in Africa South of the Sahara
Out of Print

 

Datutop 1
Seppo Aura. Studying the Experience of the Urban Environment
Jorma Mänty. A Simple Logic for Urban Architecture
Terttu Pakarinen. Urban Space in Social Context
1982
Out of Print