First thoughts on this was the Monty Python "Architects" sketch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwztaZUkUw and the quite literal extension that Architecture causes pain. This idea developed to include current issues of OH&S and related injuries and the attempt to limit the activities that take place to limit liability. The skateboarders out the front of the Red Centre, for example, are outlawed to prevent them from suffering pain as a result of the misuse of Architecture, which limits the financial pain to the University as a result of any injury that might be sustained. I suppose it limits the pain inflicted on the Architecture as well... at a stretch.
So "Architecture causes pain" as a theme, covers the physical pain that the built environment inflicts on the publicand the resulting financial.
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