[In The Beginnings of Architecture] Giedion cites the evidence several times that there is no architectural enclosing of space before script. Giedion does not know why this should be. Visual space alone of all the space discriminated by our various senses is continuous, uniform and connected. Any technology that extends the visual power imposes these visual properties upon all other spaces. Our own return in the electric age to a nonvisual world has confronted us suddenly with this tyrannical and usurping power of the visual over the other senses.