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This article presents information on the art exhibition "Lebbeus Woods: Experimental Architecture," curated by Tracy Myers. At the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, through January 16, 2005. Woods, who last practiced decades ago, left his day job to invent, on paper, that make people wonder. But the virtuosity of the drawings prompts to separate the draftsmanship from the vision, the dancer from the dance. However, to focus on the draftsmanship — the shadings, mood, evocation, and depth of space — is to relegate the architect to the status of a beauty trained to be blonde: all talent, little brain. Tracy Myers, a curator at the Heinz Architectural Center, has mounted the largest American exhibition yet on Woods, and it performs the critical service of dwelling on the ideas in the work rather than letting technique and beauty define the accomplishment.