The Heinz Architectural Center in Pittsburgh is what happens when someone with taste and vision decides that architectural history deserves a stage of its own. Drue Heinz, already a patron of writers, turned her attention to architecture, helping the Carnegie Museum of Art create a wing entirely devoted to the storage, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings, models, and fragments—treating them with the same seriousness as paintings and sculpture. Cicognani Kalla’s competition winning entry, carved three levels of galleries, a study library, and offices into what had been a single cavernous hall while connecting it to three different entry points within the museum. The materials—stucco walls, linen finishes, wenge trim, and dark cork floors—bring a quiet gravity to the space, while a narrow three-story entrance hall, like something out of a Piranesi etching, sets the tone on arrival. Natural light filters into the two-story library, making it feel less like a vault and more like a place where ideas can breathe, reminding visitors that architecture is more than buildings; it is the drawings, the models, and the stories that get us there.