The Ecole favored the study of Greek and Roman buildings, composition, symmetry and elaborate two-dimensional wash or watercolor renderings of the buildings. Fluted doric columns on porch of Angell Hall. Buildi ngs in this style can usually be recognized by their large and grandiose composition with an exuberance of detail and variety of stone finishes. In large buildings is typical a five part composition, with a climatic central mass dominating the wings and their terminal features. Fronts are often found broken into advancing and receding planes, and a general tendency to multiply re-entrant angles sometimes affects even the treatment of the quoins.
Roofs can be flat, low-pitched hipped, or mansard.
Windows may be framed by free-standing columns, balustraded sill, and pedimented entablature on top. Pronounced cornices and enriched entablatures are topped with a tall parapet , balustrade , or monumental attic story. Bibliography Harris, Cyril M. Harris. The M.I.T. Press, 1969.