My writing and research has been published both in world´s leading academic journals, such as Art History and Comparative Studies in Society and History as well as in key publications in the broader field of (architectural) culture, such as Harvard Design Magazine and Log. I am a regular contributor on art and architecture to Finland´s largest daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
Forthcoming
Off-Center: Architectures of Russian Imperialism, an edited volume of 17 chapters, on contract with Leuven University Press, forthcoming in 2027, co-edited with Da-Hyung Jeong.
”Life Among the Ruins: The Afterlives of Landscapes of Defense” co-authored with Dan Dubowitz, in Landscapes of Defence - EU’s Border to Russia, ed. by Liene Jakobsen and Ilka Ruby (Berlin: Ruby Press, forthcoming in 2026).
Unmaking the Empire: Architecture and the City in Revolutionary Russia. A manuscript in the final stages of preparation, to be submitted to a publisher.
2026
Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2026), an edited volume of scholarly articles and conversations with creative practitioners. Co-edited with Nitin Bathla, Klearjoos Papanicolaou, Silvia Cipelletti.
“Sensoriums of Planetary Urbanization: Journeys through Film and Cinema from City Symphony to the Planetary Sublime,” co-author with Nitin Bathla Silvia Cipelletti, Klearjoos Papanicolou. in Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanisation (Berlin: Jovis, 2026).
2025
“Field Notes from Venice: Architectural Histories at the Biennale”, Architectural Histories 13(1), 1–40. Full text
”Disposession” in Provenance in Architecture: A Dictionary, ed. by Uwe Fleckner and Mari Lending (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2025).
”From Sky to Earth: Tselinny by Asif Khan and how it is made,” Tselinny 1 [– A Reader] (Almaty: Tselinny Center for Contemporary Art, 2025), 328–337.
2024
“Architecture between empire and revolution: housing and the shaping of Soviet Leningrad”, Planning Perspectives, 2024: 1–26.
Lähteenmäki, M., (2024) “Field Note: The EAHN Thematic Conference 'States in Between: Architecture and Empire in East Europe and North Eurasia'”, Architectural Histories 12(1). Full text
"Field Notes: Why We Need Eastern Europe?" Architectural Histories 12 (1). Full text
"Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect", Drawing Matter. Full text
2023
“Blagoustroistvo: Infrastructure, Determinism, (Re-)Coloniality and Social Engineering in Moscow, 1917-2022, Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2023;65(3):587-615. Co-authored with Michal Murawski. Full text
“Remembering Jean-Louis Cohen”, Avery Review no. 64. Full text
“Hieno näyttely on näpäytys nykyarkkitehtuurille, joka näyttää menettäneen luovuutensa”, in Helsingin Sanomat, 24.2. Full text
"Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders 1960s to 1980s – Review" Drawing Matter Jan 2023. Full text
“Kolumni: Arkkitehtuuria imperiumien ristipaineessa” (Column: Architecture in cross pressure of empires), Arkkitehtiuutiset (Finnish Architecture News), 2023/4, 19.
2022
"Lenin’s Tomb, the Second Version," Drawing Matter, Sep 2022. Link.
"Shifting Fundamentals" in Strelka Magazing. Review of the Venice Architecture Biennale. 2022/6.
”Naiset arkkitehtuurin kirjoittajina: Women Writing Architecture”. Arkkitehti (Finnish Architectural Review)i, 2022(2), 15-16. With Anna Ripatti.
"Tyyppitalot historian peilinä ja toivona tulevasta," (”Type Houses as a mirror of the past and hope for the future”), Tahiti: Taidehistoria tieteenä (journal of the Finnish society of Art Historians), 12(2), 2022, 135–140. Book review of Kristo Vesikansa, Philip Tidwell & Laura Berger, New Standards – Timber Houses Ltd. 1940–1955 (2021). 2/2022
2021
"Learning to Look with Brodsky", Log (winter/spring 2021) pp. 51–59. Full text
"Power & Public Space 8: Markus Läteenmäki – Lev Rudnev’s Monument to the Victims of the Revolution." Podcast episode, Drawing Matter, July 2022. Listen
"Ruptures on Display" Arts of the Working Class, 2021/9.
2020
"Lines of Action and Readymade Stones: Lev Rudnev’s Monument to the Victims of the Revolution" AR/Architecture Research 2020, 286–323. Full text
"Everything in Life Can Be Montaged – You Just Need to Find the Right Way," review article in Art History, 2020:1, 213-218. Long format review essay of two recent books on montage theory and modernity Martino Stierli's Montage and the Metropolis (2018) and Luka Arsenjuk's Movement, Action, Image, Montage (2018). Full text
"EST IN ARCADIA EGO," Arkkitehti (Finnish Architecture Review) 2020/3, 41–45. Full text
Older
"Perspective Against Architecture" Architecture Through Drawing, eds. Luscombe D, Thomas H. & Hobhouse N. (London: Lund Humphries, 2019), s. 142–149.
"Rereading Daniil Kharms: A Man Had Left His Home One Day", Harvard Design Magazine 1/2018, 60–65. (with commentary of Matvei Yankelevich and Alexander Brodsky).
"More than a building", Arkkitehti (Finnish Architecture Review), 5/2018, 86–90.
"Alvar Aalto’s city", Drawing Matter. Novmeber 2017.
“Architecture Biennale”, The Burlington Magazine 6/2016, pp. 666–668.
“The Shchukin Collection”, The Burlington Magazine, 1/2017, pp. 62–53.
“Guggenheim Time”, essay in professional journal Architectural Review, 9/2014.
“Variable Bases of Operation: El Lissitzy’s designs for the 1928 Pressa exhibition”, Fair Enough: Pavilion of the Russian Federation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, (Exhibition catalogue, 2014) pp. 93–99.