ABSTRACT
Watsuji's theory of fudo in this manner leads us to revisit Critical Regionalism, which sought to degree reciprocity between the regional and the universal, or the trans-regional, a criticism of Critical Regionalism, and a discourse that deals with typicality of the ideals of the human living. The emphasis on the codes trespassing regional boundaries overshadows a couple of the possibilities of which Watsuji's fudo is indicative. The cross by Tadao Ando is qualitatively different from the type of the code that Colquhoun discusses, in that this cross joins both the universal and the regional as effectuated by its climatic conditions. A good example for the code that is not a merely informative sign to be easily manipulated beyond regional boundaries and that is equipped with a corporeal efficacy would be the cross in the Church of the Light (1989) by Tadao Ando.
