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interpretation of architecture as a setting-into-work of truth is new

and may even seem bewildering. Today we are used to think of art

in terms of expression and representation and consider man or

society its origin. heidegger also emphasizes on his theory about 

how the work of art does not re-present but rather it presents,it

brings something into presence.

Heidegger talks about the relationship of god and man by using 

the temple built by the Greeks as an example and a metaphor.

he says that the temple makes the god present. and this shapes

the destiny of man.

Primitive religions are replete with examples of buildings and shrines as a house or shrine to an idol or a god. Animistic religionists believe that spirits live in trees, rocks, caves, or sacred groves. The Egyptians deified crocodiles, cats, cows, birds and beetles. The Greeks and Romans assigned to their gods splendid mansions and palaces as their dwelling places.But the god does not need houses or temples to dwell in---the entire universe is God's house, "the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him" and His infinite Spirit can not apparently be confined in any way to man-made dwelling places: so it is a man's thinking or presentation of a dwelling in a  certain manner that brings god into presence. or for that matter of fact everything else.

the idols,statues,figures, writings,scriptures, massiveness all this in a dwelling is what brings god into presence.

from a recent trip to masjid jamek in kuala lumpur, i realized that the relationship between man an god through architecture is presented by, the massiveness, the domes, the writing and scriptures on the walls of the mosque. and the devoted places for god, his worship by man and prayers example the qibla, is what stengthens the relationship of man and god through architecture.

heidegger also talks about how architecture brings everything else into presence as well, he used an example of a bridge. it brings the landscape into presence, the trees and everything else around it, this is how he relates man and nature.

Heidegger defines language as the house of being, he says the man dwell in language,that is: when he listens to and responds to language the world he is, is opened up and an authentic existence becomes possible.

heidegger gave an example of a shoe, he says that if it rests in the center of  an empty room, no one will notice or know what it is because its existence is known by language, so poetically no image will be portrayed by man, but if its given a name and existence thats when people will notice it and recognize it as a shoe.

and therefore if a space or a place is not given a name its existence and presence will be unknown by man.

In conclusion i would say that according to heidegger's philosophy the existence of everything that is around us,is considered as a work of art, architecture brings everything around it into presence, and thus brings man closer to nature and god himself.