Tadao Ando is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
Tadao Ando in 2004
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, showing the restaurant
Galleria Akka, Osaka, 1988
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
Autodidacticism or self-education is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters.
Tadao Ando is a famous autodidact architect of the twenty-first century.