Rape space is a term that I first encountered while in attendance at the University of Cincinnati’s undergraduate architecture program.  The term rape space was spoken by faculty members with the same frequency as other designer-ly words such as form and hierarchy.  If you have not yet guessed, a rape space is a bad thing, and no student ever wants to be credited with creating a rape space or hearing that phrase during a critique.  The exact origin of this term remains unknown to me, and I am unsure if this term has populated the architectural vocabulary of other respected architectural education programs.