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In recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design will host the online panel conversation "500 Years and Counting" from 4 - 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 13, via Zoom.
The "500 Years and Counting" panel conversation will explore the Hispanic legacy and agency in the built environment of the United States in the context of the year 2021 and the 500 years since the first European conquest in the mainland of the Americas: the fall of Aztec Tenochtitlan to the Spanish and their indigenous allies.
Assistant Professor Juan Luis Burke will be one of five panelists who are experts in Latino/Hispanic forms of architecture, urbanism and landscape to participate. Additional event details and panelist biographies are found in this article.