rectangularismn.

1855 J. G. MacVicar Philos. of Beautiful iv. 87 In Gothic architecture these four elements are always to be met with; first, rectangularism, to satisfy the laws of gravitation and of maximum area, and so to please the demand of the understanding for the beautiful; secondly [etc.].

1871 C. S. Vereker Scenes in Sunny South I. xxiv. 265 All these picturesque features have been ruthlessly destroyed, and rectangularism and Frenchified architecture reign in their stead.

1954 Archit. Rev. 116 88/2 But in Holland there was no convulsion change; de Stijl won common acceptance by compromise..with existing styles, as in the case of Dudok's romantic rectangularism.

1965 Print Design & Production June 26/3 (caption) The wilderness of clinical, precise sans serif faces becomes more overgrown, with a trend to Univers rather than Grot 215. Rectangularism is rampant, with arbitrary grids, boxes and rules constricting the carefree expression of an artistic idea.

1994 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 Sept. e5 The campus is a combination of styles... It's [sic] rectangularism inspires different reactions from the students who daily walk along its extended colonnades.