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Phenomenology is Form and Function: The International Buddhist Temple

Phenomenology will sometimes incorporate spirituality into intellectual arguments with place and space, and argues that we have more than our five senses to experience the world around us – that even if you were blind, deaf, couldn't smell, couldn't taste, and had no form of sensory perception, the place that you are in could still effect you. The qualities of a place that you can not define through your senses is what explains phenomenology. Phenomenology works on isolating the senses from which we experience our environment and looks for things that we experience that we cannot explain through those five senses. Architecture is the blending and integration of technology and art – if architecture was just art, it would no loner be architecture, it would be a sculpture. Architecture also has pragmatic qualities that are necessary for pure functionality. Phenomenology is how we explain the feelings that the art and architecture gives us when its also so deeply integrated with the technology associated with it. A large part of architectural philosophy that deals with phenomenology hinges on that we have experiences that can't be explained with our physical senses. Architectural thought and reasoning becomes spiritual and drifts away from intellectual thought. In order for architecture to capture you, impact you, or make you think, you can't be looking at a picture. For it is a photograph that would be capture you. Architecture is also the space that you are in, and that is what impacts you. If you are just looking at a picture, you can be impacted, but not by the architecture. To be captivated by architecture you must be in the place. The Internal Buddhist Temple is not allowed to be photographed for the same reason of architecture, and also for reasons of spirituality as it is wrong to disrespect the symbolism used in the architecture. Taking a picture lends the photograph to being