ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the architectural significance of Tetsuro Watsuji's environmental thinking by conducting three independent studies: the nature of the spatial configuration of the Japanese vernacular residential architecture, of which Watsuji himself wrote; the environmental philosophy of Richard Neutra; and lastly, the discourse of regionalism and trans-regionalism in contemporary architecture. Watsuji's discussion of the inter-fudos is further significant in that it opens a theoretical space for the trans-regional aspect of human living; i.e., typicality of human praxis and its dialectical relationship with the local particulars, including its natural and climatic idiosyncrasy and variableness. Watsuji's swift intellectual trajectory from fudo that regards man's relationship with nature to ethics as the matter that regards the inter-personal relationship is, in a sense, indicative of his awakening into the significance of this trans-regional dimension.
