Ted Landsmark

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Ted Landsmark (born May 17, 1946) is the president of the Boston 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. ^[1] 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.

Ted Landsmark was the subject of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for an image entitled The Soiling of Old Glory. In that photograph in what appears to be a group of white males are holding down Landsmark, with one man striking him with a flag. The man that appears to be pinning him is the anti-busing organizer Jim Kelly. He was also not struck by the flag. He was walking in the plaza to get to Boston City Hall when the protesters attacked him. After the police broke up the assault, he was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for injuries, including a broken nose and bruises on his entire body.