Ted Landsmark
| Theodore Landsmark | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 17, 1946 Kansas City |
| Alma mater | Yale College B.A., Yale School of Architecture M.Env.D., Yale Law School J.D., Boston University, Ph.D. |
| Occupation | University president, lawyer |
Theodore "Ted" Carlisle Landsmark (born May 17, 1946; Theodore Augustus Burrell) is an attorney and architect. He served as the President of Boston Architectural College (BAC) from 1997 to 2014, and was previously the Dean of Graduate and Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Art. He also served as the Director of Boston's Office of Community Partnerships.
Landsmark has received fellowships from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and the National Science Foundation, and he served on the editorial board for Architecture Boston. Landsmark also serves as a trustee to numerous arts-related foundations including Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is widely recognized as an important advocate of diversity and of the African American cause in schools of architecture. He is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, and also serves on the organization's Executive Board.[1]
Landsmark earned B.A., M.E.D.[2] and J.D. degrees from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Boston University.[3][4]
In 2006 he received the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award from the American Institute of Architects in recognition for his efforts as a social activist.[5]
Involvement in Busing Movement
In the 1970s, Landsmark was working in Boston as a civil rights attorney and advocate, and was involved in the city's conflict over busing as part of desegregation of the public schools.
Landsmark was a subject of the photograph that won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, entitled The Soiling of Old Glory, taken by Stanley Forman. The photograph raised public ire against anti-busing supporters through its depiction of a supporter appearing to weaponize the American flag in support of his cause.[6]
References
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- ↑ M.E.D. Research-Based Thesis Program Yale School of Architecture. 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2013.
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- ↑ Boston Architectural College Board of Trustees Boston Architectural College. 2013. Retrieved May 2, 2013
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External links
- The HistoryMakers biography of Landsmark
- Pulitzer Prize Photo of Ted Landsmark being assaulted
- Theodore Landsmark Selected as 2006 Recipient of The Whitney M. Young Jr. Award
- Smithsonian Magazine History & Archeology Stars and Strife
- Biography
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Audio interview and conversation (28 minutes), with former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, former Mass. Secretary of Transportation Fred Salvucci, Ted Landsmark describing the successful effort to avoid violence in Boston after Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, and Boston Federal Court Orders to desegregate the schools in 1974.
