This University of Pittsburgh article provides a brief backgrounder on the area’s culturally significant architecture, including the who and where to learn more.  Examples:

  • The birthplace of Stephen Foster, America’s first professional songwriter
  • Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning, the second-tallest educational building in the world
  • Pitt’s Nationality Rooms, classrooms that  represent highly creative periods or aspects of the region’s 27 immigrant heritages
  • Fallingwater, perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest architectural masterpiece
  • The Andy Warhol Museum, the most comprehensive single-artist museum in the world with 12,000 of the artist’s works