This set of readings was in many ways inspiring.  Rather than go through an analysis of each reading, I think it best to give my overall reaction.   Giedon talks about how artist along with architects and scientist are all looking for new ideas and each conducting experiments to figure out people’s relationship to the their environments.  This really resonated with me.  I thought about how each of us is truly just trying to find different ways of perceiving our world and giving a physical or though provoking manifestation to what we see.  In many ways this is a search for a new way of seeing that has not been done before.  I think now, I understand better the idea of the cubist and new painters of that time.  It was a search to integrate all aspects of the four dimensional world into a single instant.  I can see why the thought was to display motion.  Motion of an objects elicits thoughts of space, relationship, points of view, and and occurrence over time.  The single montage of a person walking can create  so many forms of analyzing space and relationships.  I almost saw their departure from drawing from perspective as their attempt at re-configuring a system.  A system is a set of variables that each have a relationship to one another.  Changing one variable can have an overall affect on that system.  Perspective was just a system for representing the world.  The variables were simply your location in relationship to all of the other objects and their relationship to the vantage points.  It was just done that way for so long that it was accepted as the only means of representation.  Cubist just saw that as a single instance of a visual system.  They simply changed the variables or the relationship of each object to the other and their relationship to the viewers single vantage point.  In a sense, they didn’t necessarily change anything about the world or overall system, but created new way of seeing that system.  I think this is really inspiring.  Each generation has the capacity to change the way things are done or seen.  As architects, we have the gift of understanding systems and relationships.  We should use that to create new methods of seeing and understanding and interacting, not simply create a division of space.