GATE Architecture/ Planning: October 2015

31 October 2015

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30 October 2015

GATE Architecture Questions

Concept of self supporting ‘Industrial Town’ was proposed by

(A) Lewis Mumford (B) Henry Wright

Answer: (C) Robert Owen

29 October 2015

GATE Architecture Questions

Mughal Garden:

o Shalimar Bag, Lahore (Built by Babur)

o Humayu’s Tomb, Delhi.

o Shalimar garden in Kashmir (Initiated by Jehangir)

o Taj Garden, Agra (Built by Sahjahan)

o Mahtab Bagh, Red Fort Agra (Built by Sahjahan)

o Khusro Bagh, Allahabad

o Nishat Garden, Jammu and Kashmir

o Garden of President Estate, New Delhi (Built by Leutyens)

o Lal Bagh Fort, Dhaka, Bangladesh

o Ismili Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, (Raj Rewal)

28 October 2015

GATE Architecture Questions 2016

Poor academic performances of school children were attributed to missing breakfast and subsequent malnutrition. The investigating survey schedule questioned every student, how many days the students have missed the breakfast? Their response may be referred as

(A) nominal scale (B) ordinal scale

(C) longitudinal scale (D) interval scale

Answer: (D) interval scale

For qualitative data

i. Nominal: scales are exclusive, no order or overlap eg. What is your religion: Hindu/ Muslim/ Sikh/……..

ii. Ordinal: data can be rank ordered and can overlap, eg. Mild, moderate, severe

iii. Dichotomous: nominal data fall into only two categories. (Yes/No)

For quantitative data

i. Interval: Numeric interval, eg: height group

ii. Ratio: Interval data with necessary zero

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27 October 2015

GATE Architecture Question

Urban design theory that deals with analysis of relationship between building mass and open space is

(A) Open space theory (B) Figure ground theory

Answer: (B) Figure ground theory

Figure ground theory : A figure-ground diagram is a two-dimensional map of an urban space that shows the relationship between built and unbuilt space. It is used in analysis of urban design and planning. A figure ground diagram comprises entities called pochés. These are, in simple terms, groups of structures — or in even simpler terms the black figures on the diagram. A poché helps to define the voids between the buildings, and to emphasize their existence as defined objects in their own rights: spaces that are as much a part of the design as the buildings whose exteriors define them. Frederick Gibberd was a proponent of the reverse figure-ground diagram, where the buildings are in white and the spaces black, to focus the perception of the designer upon the space as an object.

Linkage theory: This theory involves the organization of lines connects the parts of the city and indicates flow of movement, axis and building edge.

Place theory: Place theory begins with understanding the cultural and human characteristics of physical space.

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GATE Architecture/Planning 2016 Question

Richter scale & the damage done:
0 to 1.9: only visible to Seismograph
2 to 2.9: Light shaking can be felt
3 to 3.9: The vibrations get stronger
4 to 4.9: Window panes can break and photo frames on walls can fall
5 to 5.9: Furniture starts moving from its place
6 to 6.9: Foundations of buildings can be displaced
7 to 7.9: Buildings can fall
8 to 8.9: Larger edifices like bridges can be damaged and fall
9 Plus: Everything that has been built buy human hands can get destroyed
the force of quake between 1 to 2 is 10 times and between 6 TO 7 is also TEN times the force at 6.

THIS CAN BE IMAGINE HOW DESTRUCTIVE IT IS WHEN FORCE IS FROM ONE NUMBER TO NEXT AND IS TEN TIMES THAN EARLIER NUMBER.

Courtsey: Chaitanya Korra , JNTU Hyderabad

26 October 2015

GATE Architecture/Planning 2016

A country has the largest city size of 5 million. What will be the population size of its fourth largest city according to the rank size rule.

(A) 1 million

(B) 1 lac

(D) 1.25 million

Answer: (D) 1.25 million

o According to rank size rule a rank 2 city would have half the population of a country's largest city, a rank 3 city would have one-third the population of a country's largest city, a rank 4 city would have one-fourth the population of the largest city.

o Zipf’s law: the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent word, etc.

For example, in the Brown Corpus of American English text, the word "the" is the most frequently occurring word, and by itself accounts for nearly 7% of all word occurrences. True to Zipf's Law, the second-place word "of" accounts for slightly over 3.5% of words, followed by "and".

o Pareto’s distribution: ( 80- 20 rule) Pareto originally used this distribution to describe the allocation of wealth among individuals. A larger portion of the wealth of any society is owned by a smaller percentage of the people in that society. He also used it to describe distribution of income. This idea is sometimes expressed more simply as the Pareto principle or the "80-20 rule" which says that 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth.

GATE Architecture Study material

Books and Authors

(Study Material for GATE AR 2016)

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No	Author	Book
1.	Alvin Toffler	Future Shock
2.	Allan Dobby	Conservation and Planning
3.	Alvar Alto	An Experimental Town
4.	Alvar Alto	The humanizing of Architecture
5.	Amos Rapoport	Human Aspects of Urban Form
6.	Amos Rapoport	House form and Culture
7.	Andrea Palladio	Four Books of Architecture
8.	Ayan Rand	Fountainhead
9.	Biaggio Rossetti	Codex Atlanticus
10.	Brian Hackett	Planting Design
11.	Brian Hackett	Landscape planning
12.	Brian Hackett	Man Society and Environment
13.	Bruno Zevi	Towards an Organic Architecture
14.	Buckminster Fuller	The Dimaxian World
15.	Burgees	The City
16.	C P Kukreja	Tropical Architecture
17.	Cecil Maurice Bowra	Golden Ages of Great Cities
18.	Charles Abraham	The future of Housing (GATE 1991)
19.	Charles Correa	The New Landscape
20.	Charles Correa	Urbanisation in the third world
21.	Charles Jenks	Language of Post- Modern Architecture (GATE 1991)
22.	Christopher Alexander	Pattern Language
23.	Christopher Alexander	Notes on synthesis of Form
24.	Christopher Alexander	Oregon Experiment
25.	Christopher Alexander	Community and Privacy
26.	Christopher Alexander	The city as a mechanism for sustaining Human contact
27.	Christopher Alexander	Pattern of streets
28.	Christopher Tunnard	Gardens in Modern Landscape
29.	Clarence Stein	Towards new Towns in America
30.	Devid Lewis	Urban Structure
31.	Doxiadis	Ekistics
32.	Doxiadis	Dynapolis
33.	Doxiadis	Urban Renewal and The Future of Urban Cities
34.	E. Saarinen	City- its growth its decay its future
35.	E. N. Bacon	Design of cities
36.	Ebenezer Howard	Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Social Reform
37.	Edmund N. Bacon	Design of Cities
38.	F. A Gutkind	Our World from Air
39.	F A Gutkind	Revolution in Environment
40.	F L Wright	Writings and Buildings
41.	F L Wright	Disappearing City
42.	F L Wright	The living city
43.	Faber Birren	New Horizon in Color
44.	Francis D. K. Ching	Architecture: Form, Space & Order
45.	Francis D. K. Ching	Architectural Graphics
46.	Francis D. K. Ching	A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
47.	Fredric Gibberd	Town Design
48.	Felix Candela	Structural digressions on style
49.	Felix Candela	Simple concrete shell structure
50.	Felix Candela	New ways to span space
51.	Gallion Fisher	Urban Pattern
52.	G A Atkinson	Introduction to tropical Building design
53.	Geoffrey Scott	The Architecture of Humanism
54.	George F Chadwick	The park in the town
55.	Gorden Cullen	Townscape
56.	Garret Eckbo	Landscape living
57.	Garret Eckbo	Urban Landscape design
58.	Guy Gruer	Your City Tomorrow
59.	Harold Van Dorsen	Industrial Design
60.	H V Lanchaster	The art of town planning
61.	Hasan Fathy	Mud Architecture
62.	Hubbard and Kimball	Introduction to study of Landscape design
63.	Ian Macharg	Design with Nature
64.	Jean Gottman	Megalopolis
65.	John Marshall	Mohenjo-Daro and Indus civilization
66.	John O Simon	Earthscape
67.	John Ruskin	The Seven Lamps of Architecture (GATE 1991)
68.	Kenneth Boulding	Meaning of 20^th century the great transition
69.	Kenzeyz Sharp	Environment Technology in Architecture
70.	Kenzeyz Sharp	Acoustics in buildings
71.	Kevin Lynch	Image of City
72.	Kevin Lynch	Site Planning
73.	Kevin Lynch	City Form
74.	Kevin Lynch	What time is this place
75.	Lewis Keeble	Principles and Practice of Town and Country Planning
76.	L Hilbersheimer	The New city
77.	Le Corbusier	The Radiant City
78.	Le Corbusier	The Modular
79.	Le Corbusier	Concerning Town Planning
80.	Le Corbusier	City of tomorrow
81.	Le Corbusier	New World of Space
82.	Le Corbusier	Towards New Architecture
83.	Lewis Mumford	The city in History
84.	Lewis Mumford	Culture of cities
85.	Lewis Mumford	The Brown Decades
86.	Lewis Mumford	The city development
87.	Lewis Mumford	Condition of man
88.	Lewis Mumford	Techniques and civilization
89.	Lewis Mumford	The city in History, its origin, its transformation and its prospects
90.	Lewis Mumford	Pattern of streets
91.	Lewis Mumford	The story of Utopians
92.	Lloyd Rodwin	Future of Metropolis
93.	Mahony - Nagy	Vision in Motion
94.	Mahony - Nagy	Matrix of man
95.	Matila Ghyka	Aesthetics of Proportion in Nature and in the Arts
96.	Met Scott	Cities are for people
97.	Margaret Roberts	An Introduction to Town Planning Technique
98.	Nicholas Negnoponte	The Architecture Machine
99.	Nicholas Pevsner	The Indian Metropolis
100.	Norberg Schulz	Meaning in Western Architecture (GATE 1991)
101.	Norman Evenson	A history of Building type
102.	Oscar Newman	Defensible space (GATE 1991)
103.	Paul Heyer	Architects on Architecture
104.	Paolo Soleri	Arcology- the city in the image of man
105.	Patrick Abercrombie	Town and Country Planning
106.	Patric Geddes	Cities in Evolution
107.	Paul D. Spreiregen	The Architecture of Towns and Cities
108.	Pawley	Architecture versus housing
109.	Peter Geoffrey Hall	Cities of Tomorrow
110.	Peter Wolf	The future of the city
111.	R Buckminister Fuller	The Dimaxion World
112.	R Scott	Design Fundamentals
113.	Richard N Wagner	Environment and Man
114.	Raymond Unwin	Nothing gained by overcrowding
115.	Reyner Banham	Theory and Design in the first machine age
116.	Richard Neutra	Survival through Design
117.	Robert Ardray	The territorial Imperative
118.	Robert Gillam Scott	Design Fundamentals
119.	Robert Moore Fisher	Twenty Years of Public Housing
120.	Robert Sommer	Personal space
121.	Robert Venturi	Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
122.	Robert Venturi	Learning from Las Vegas
123.	Robin Boyd	Victorian Modern
124.	Robin Boyd	New Dimensions in Japan Architecture
125.	Rose Roseman	The ideal city
126.	S Geidon	Space, time and Architecture
127.	S Geidon	Works of Joseph Paxton
128.	Stuart Chapin	Urban Landuse Planning
129.	Sylvia Crowe	The Landscape of Roads
130.	Sylvia Crowe	Garden Design
131.	Talbot Hamlin	Architecture through the Ages
132.	Thomas Adams	Outline of Town and Country Planning
133.	Thomas D Church	Gardens are for people
134.	Thomas D Church	Your Private World
135.	Tunnard	The city of man
136.	Victor Gruen	The Emerging Urban Pattern
137.	Victor Olgay	Design with Climate
138.	Victor Papanoc	Design for real world
139.	W D Teagni	Design this Day
140.	W Kennet	Preservation
141.	W Kohler/ Kurt Koffle	Gestalt Psychology
142.	Wilfred own	The accessible city
143.	Yoshinobu Ashihara	Exterior Design in Architecture

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