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12 NORTHERN NEVADA ARCHITECTECTURE .20 | 2020 | www.aiann.org Wells designed this building to complement and be unified with his design for the new Reno City Hall (now the Discovery Museum), which opened the year before. The library shares many materials, detailing and features with the 1965 City Hall — including its brickwork, glass and copper details. Both buildings are also organized around enclosed atrium spaces. This sensitive and unique design for the new library brought Reno national attention in 1968. Wells and his collaborators, landscape architect Mitchell Serven, and Purdy and Fitzpatrick Nursery received the Industrial Landscape Award from the American Association of Nurserymen. Lady Bird Johnson presented this award inWashington DC, as part of her American Cities Beautification Program. PIONEERTHEATER – AUDITORIUM (1967) Bozalis Dickinson&Roloff, Architect / Temcor National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), 2005 Nevada State Register of Historic Places (SHPO), 2000 City of Reno’s Register of Historic Places this year, 2020 In the 1960s, cities across the country were building facilities for the performing arts and conventions. Reno was no exception. As Reno was gearing up to be in step with the country, the PioneerTheater- Auditoriumwas conceived and built to address growing community needs and established Reno as more than a “casino town.” This was Reno’s first theater stage for major productions outside of the casinos. To help attract and support convention business to Reno, the Pioneer also incorporated meeting and exhibit spaces below the adjacent plaza. It provided a link for convention activities between downtown and the new Centennial Coliseum (now Reno- Sparks Convention Center) to the south, which opened in 1965 and was designed by Richard Neutra in collaboration with the Reno firm of Lockard, Casazza, Parsons & Associates. The R. Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome of this building was provocative in Reno from the beginning, designed and built by Temcor, whose co-founder Don Richter was a student of Fuller. With this iconic dome hugging the adjacent plaza and framing the theater lobby entrances, the building’s massing celebrates the dome and its unique structure, bringing it right down to the pedestrian level. INFORMING OUR FUTURE: Today, as we usher in the third decade of the 21st century, our communities are again confronted with social and environmental challenges, similar to those of the prior Mid-Century period. Many of the forces shaping the Postwar era and the 1960s are still with us today and evolving. Monumental challenges affecting our communities and our profession are compounded by the pandemic, monumental commerce and population shifts, civil unrest, inequities in social inclusion and global climate change. All this has come center stage in 2020, challenging architects and designers to guide and lead our communities. As innovators and creatives, architects have the skills to turn these challenges into opportunities. Many of the “old rules” are now suspended in addressing these issues, and no new ideas are off the table. What can we learn and be inspired by from the work of past generations of our community’s leading architects? Local architects like Ray Hellmann and Hewitt Wells were innovating and collaborating with project teams to meet the requirements of their clients and responsibly meet the challenges of the community and societal issues of their time. They have left us with a significant legacy of architectural contributions, attesting to their skills, talent and innovative solutions. Architects are uniquely experienced and skilled in creating and developing the visions that shape, guide andmove our communities forward. Our profession is now presented with big challenges, offering opportunities to meet our community’s needs —an invitation to rise to the occasion with new design innovations. This creates a great opportunity for our profession in the community and a responsibility to guide and inspire the next generation of architects and designers. b  — continued from page 11 Pioneer Theater Auditorium