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A late, great addition to the Spanish Revival catalog, Josias Joesler’s Broadway Village shopping center in Tucson dates from 1939, and is surely among the last noteworthy commercial projects of the era done in the Andalusian vernacular. With its staggered clay tile paving, warm brick walls, and barrel tile roofs, Joesler’s design remains immune to the usual faddishness of retail design. Its variety of forms and intimate scale make both browsing and relaxing a pleasure, a strategy which has only recently been rediscovered by retail developers. The wood-linteled window with its spandrel of painted ceramic tile, and the arched portal surmounted by a statuary niche are classic Joesler touches. Such imagery had largely fallen out of favor by the eve of World War II, and only a portion of the complex has survived the postwar preference for Modernist architecture.

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