With a wish of ‘living as obscuring as possible’ Lanier’s parents, Jewish survivors of a concentration camp in Austria, and a pogrom in Ukraine, fled to the U.S. border with Mexico, while Lanier was still a kid. His mother’s death, in a car accident, not only left huge void in his life, but forced father-son duo to relocate to Mesilla, where they lived in a tent. Lanier was nine years old then. In the meantime the duo kept building a house combined with multiple interconnected geodesic dome. The seven years which took to complete the house named Earth Station Lanier, helped Lanier develop a taste for creating weird and wonderful environments that went a long way in shaping-up his life.
A significant event happened when Lanier was fourteen. He attended a summer camp for chemistry at a local university, at the completion of which he decided against returning to school, and stayed in college. How is that ever possible? The explanation he....
