Some useful books for planning

Right now i am solving gate 2007 qp. Simply not solving, but researching all the multiple choices. i will post all useful links here as i study. BTW i found some books which gives a good overview of planning topics. will share the name of books
1. Architecture and town Planning by satish Chandra Agarwala(dhanpat rai and co)
2. Town Planning- by Rangwala(charotar publishing house)
3. Fundamentals of town planning- by G K Hirasker(dhanpat rai )
4. Time Saver Standards for Urban Planning- Watson, Donald, Google books
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=OeHdu9BqO-0C&pg=RA3-PA27&dq=fine+grain+uniform+texture+housing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=83d8UuiiEOW1iAe_yYCYBw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=fine%20grain%20uniform%20texture%20housing&f=true

 These books cover housing. planning, traffic planning etc and each cost around Rs. 100, except the time savers which will cost abour Rs. 3000. Available in most academic bookstores. I did hunt around for gate prep books for architecture to no avail. So we will have to gather info on our own. Internet is an excellent resource to research while solving the question papers.

Important Architects

Indian

Ar. Kanvinde

http://www.slideshare.net/akshaychecker/ap-kanvinde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achyut_Kanvinde

J. A. Stein
en..org/wiwikipediaki/Joseph_Allen_Stein

Anant Raje
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anant_Raje

Raj Rewal
http://www.slideshare.net/harrydhillon/raj-rewal
http://insaindia.org/pdf/Innovation_in_Architecture.pdf

B V Doshi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._V._Doshi

Charles Correa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Correa

Hashmukh Patel

http://www.hcp.co.in/file_manager/publications/HCP_Monograph.pdf

Laurie Baker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Baker

Raj Rewal

http://www.rajrewal.in/project-list-bt-res.htm

 U C Jain
http://www.ucjain.com/pdf/UCJ_Architecture_Planning.pdf

International

Eliel Saarinen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliel_Saarinen

Eero Saarinen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Saarinen

Joseph Paxton(crystal Palace)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton

Mies Van Der Rohe ("less is more") ("god is in the details")(skin and bone architecture)(barcelona chair)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe

Le Corbusier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier

Walter Gropius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius

Louis Sullivan (form follows function)( father of skyscrapers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan

Marcel Breuer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Breuer

Kenzo Tange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenz%C5%8D_Tange

Alvar Aalto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto

Tadoa Ando

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadao_Ando

Norman Foster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank

Philip Johnson (father of intelligent design movement)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson

I M Pei

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei

Cesar Pelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Pelli

Richard Meier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Meier

Renzo Piano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Meier

Robert Venturi(less is bore)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi

Micheal Graves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Graves

 Frei Otto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frei_Otto

Rem Koolhaas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas

Santiago Calatrava

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Calatrava

Daniel Libeskind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind

Bernard Tschumi(deconstructivism)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Tschumi

Christopher Charles Benninger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Charles_Benninger