[Ted] Landsmark has spent a lifetime moving forward, while studying and learning from the past. He calls the attack at Boston City Hall \u201cthe transformative moment in my life,\u201d\u009d but he never had any intention of allowing it to define his life. Having grown up in the projects of Harlem, having recovered from childhood polio, Landsmark has gone on to have a remarkable life. He has been an educator, lawyer, designer, social activist and worked in government. He has three degrees from Yale and a doctorate from Boston University, was at the March on Washington and Selma, and been a college president, among other things. And since January, academic vice president at the American College of the Building Arts in Charleston.<\/p>\n
\u201cCharleston is a terrific city,\u201d\u009d he says, and he is talking not just about the architecture and the food, but as a place for both blacks and whites to live together.<\/p>\n
Landsmark started coming to Charleston in the early 1990s, doing research in the Carolinas and Georgia into early African American craftsmen. \u201cIn the course of driving around, I fell in love with the place,\u201d\u009d he says. He bought a house on Wadmalaw Island more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n