Tadao Ando tastes concrete success in Tokyo retrospective

  • 7 years ago
Japanese master Tadao Ando took an unconventional route to architecture, starting life as a boxer and a lorry driver. Completely self-taught, his unorthodox training did not stop him winning the Pritzker prize, considered the Nobel of architecture, following in the footsteps of the likes of Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid.