Lawrence Halprin, 93, a legendary American landscape architect who designed the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial along the Tidal Basin and San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square, marrying ecology and aesthetics in scores of the nation’s urban spaces, died Oct. 25. via washingtonpost [RK]
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