Happy 128th birthday to Le Corbusier! He was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, in Switzerland, on October 6, 1887. His modernist buildings, many made with untreated concrete, are some of the most jaw-dropping works of the 20th century. Click through a few of his masterpieces. Pictured here: Villa Savoye, Poissy, France; completed in 1931.

Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France; opened in 1955.

Palace of Justice, Chandigarh, India; completed in 1952.

Cite Radieuse, Marseille, France; opened in 1952.

Villa Jeanneret, Maison Blanche, Paris; completed in 1925.

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; completed in 1962.

A portrait of Le Corbusier, circa 1955.