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Theodore (Ted) Landsmark

Prior to his work at the Boston Architectural College, Ted Landsmark was 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. Landsmark 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.