Larry Halprin​It's always a jarring thing to pick up the paper and see an obit for someone you know, and that was the case yesterday when I read about the death of architect Lawrence Halprin at age 93. It's not as if I was a friend or close associate of the family. But Halprin was just about the most intensely interesting, sociable, funny, erudite, uplifting interview subject I've ever had in my journalistic career. I wandered over to Halprin's Levi Plaza office back in 2005; as I later put it