- Ted Landsmark
Ted Landsmark (born
May 17 ,1946 ) is the president of theBoston Architectural College 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 serves 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. Landsmark earned a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. [ [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/456/ Is There a Black Architect in the House?] , MIT World,June 06 ,2007 . Last accessedJanuary 16 ,2008 .] In 2006 he received theWhitney M. Young Jr. Award from theAmerican Institute of Architects in recognition for his efforts as asocial activist .Ted Landsmark was the subject of the 1977
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for an image entitled "The Soiling of Old Glory ". He was walking in the plaza to get toBoston City Hall when anti-busing protesters attacked him. In that photograph, anti-busing organizer Jim Kelly holds Landsmark while teen Joseph Rakes appears to be about to strike Landsmark with anAmerican flag . He wasn't struck by it.After the police broke up the assault, Landsmark was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for injuries, including a broken nose and bruises on his entire body.
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External links
* [http://www.archvoices.org/pg.cfm?nid=home&IssueID=332 Brief Biography of Ted Landsmark, Esq., PhD, Assoc. AIA ]
* [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=569 The HistoryMakers biography of Landsmark]
* [http://www.faheykleingallery.com/featured_artists/americana/americana_02.htm Pulitzer Prize Photo of Ted Landsmark being assaulted]
* [http://www.the-bac.edu/x1014.xml Theodore Landsmark Selected as 2006 Recipient of The Whitney M. Young Jr. Award]
* [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/indelible-apr06.html Smithsonian Magazine History & Archeology Stars and Strife]
* [http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek05/tw1216/tw1216_whitney.cfm Biography]
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