SINGAPORE — Regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern architecture and urban planning, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, or Le Corbusier, is now the centre of attention in an extensive retrospective titled Atlas of Modern Landscapes which opened recently at New York’s Museum Of Modern Art.

It’s been hailed as “sweeping”, “globe-spanning” and “comprehensive” — covering his works from casual sketches and water paintings to architectural models of full-scale rooms and interiors like that of the Unite d’Habitation in Marseilles.

The exhibition, which runs until September, comes barely a month after another architect’s much-anticipated showcase. Zaha Hadid, the only woman to win The Pritzker Architecture Prize, opened her very own design gallery on East London’s Clerkenwell Road. You’ll get a Zaha home and fashion lesson here: The Zephyr sofa she designed for Cassina; the Serif Shelves for Established & Sons; Aria and Avia lamps for Slamp; the Icone bag for Louis Vuitton and even jewellery that she plans to produce for consumers. Don’t worry, there are also her architectural models among other creative ventures.

Incidentally, the Danish Architecture Centre is also holding a solo exhibition called World Architecture, which celebrates her legacy. It opens at the end of the week.

Finally, from one contemporary legend to another, Frank Gehry is currently and undoubtedly the main attraction in A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture From Southern California, which is also ongoing at Los Angeles’ Museum Of Contemporary Art (Moca) until September.

The show features his design for the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, which lost the bid to Jean Nouvel. Other key names in the Moca exhibition are Pritzker winner Thom Mayne, who designed Phare Tower, the tallest building in Paris, presently under construction, and Hitoshi Abe who’s behind the Kanno Museum of Art.