Robert Piotrowski. Originally from Buffalo, New York, Robert Piotrowski earned a Bachelor of Professional Science in Architecture from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984. In 1988, he was awarded a Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he completed his thesis work with Rafael Moneo. While attending Harvard, Robert participated in a student exchange program with the ETH Zürich in 1987, and worked in the studio of DolfSchnebli. In 1995, Robert led the fifth and sixth semester undergraduate architectural design studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a position he held until 2000, when he and Dea Ecker began their practice in Germany. Robert was elevated to Fellowship in the Bund Deutsche Innenarchitekten (BDIA) in 2006.