bowellism means high tech architecture; a style of architecture that places pipes, ducts and other mechanical utilities outside the building to maximise interior space.
Etymology
From bowel + -ism, from the resemblance of exposed ducts to bowels.
noun
- high tech architecture; a style of architecture that places pipes, ducts and other mechanical utilities outside the building to maximise interior space.“Bowellism, is the strangest of the three (fig 15). It never, in fact, reached the stage of a built building, at least not in its ultimate style.”