Growing Up Freely in Nature
After living in Donora until the age of eight, Robert's family moved to South Florida. At that time, Florida was blessed with a rich natural environment. He spent his middle and high school years surrounded by nature, including the ocean and national parks. While he was interested in all his subjects at school, he had a special interest in aerospace engineering. The United States at that time was engaged in fierce competition in space exploration, commonly known as The Space Race. Robert wasn't the only one interested in space exploration; the entire nation was obsessed by it. Robert entered the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University in Indiana, a university with an international reputation for engineering. While studying aerospace engineering, he became more interested in creative pursuits and switched his major to architecture, a field that is engineering-based but calls for imagination.
