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Yale College; Yale School of Architecture. Yale Law School; Boston University. Yale University.
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Ted Landsmark
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He served as the President of Boston Architectural College (Baccalaureate) from 1997 to 2014, and was previously the Dean of Graduate and Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Artist He also served as the Director of Boston" General’ 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.
Landsmark earned Bachelor of Arts, M.E.D. and Juris Doctor degrees from Yale University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Boston University. 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.
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.
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In 2006 he received the Whitney M. Young Junior. Award from the American Institute of Architects in recognition for his efforts as a social activist. 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.
